And I don’t think it fare to say that the press has just been wall-to-wall phone hacking; I heard news coverage about the committee report yesterday and read about it in the Guardian.

If there were any failings in relation to equipment or personelle then appropriate lessons must be learnt.

The powers that be have determined that the only story worth column inches at the moment is the phone hacking scandal.

I believe that what you have written about is significantly more important and I agree that it is an insult that so few people are even aware of this, in no small part because the media has become decidedly single issue in recent weeks.

I hope we soon return to normality so that Afghanistan, along with Libya, the East African humanitarian crisis and the ongoing economic turmoil worldwide actually get a mention.