THANK you Robert Holmes of Thorganby ('Go Helen, please go', August 24) for saying what I've wanted to say for some time.

Why, when we live in such an interesting world in an age of new technology do we have to have Helen Mead's boring domestic trivia?

There are places out there we haven't visited, cultures we know little about, newly-discovered galaxies, bizarre or tragic lives of people in history - a wealth of subjects I for one would like to read about. Please give us someone who can write a column of something more interesting than underwear and thwarted sex lives.

Joan Paley,

Alwyne Drive,

York.