I HADN'T actually realised how much of a tabloid the Evening Press was until I read the headline "Baghdad Is Ours" (April 7). Baghdad belongs to who exactly? The Evening Press? The US? Perhaps the UK?

The last time I checked, there were still Iraqi civilians living in Baghdad. I don't suppose by some miracle that they might actually have some claim to their own city?

I can see that you are publicising the advances being made in Iraq but why adopt this gung-ho attitude? I can only presume that your editor would very much like to be the next Piers Morgan of the Daily Mirror, albeit on a slightly more local level.

Ben Sutton,

Forest Way,

Heworth,

York.

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Updated: 16:57 Friday, April 11, 2003