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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Vaughan Freeman ("Pole position", 19 May) writes of the British Racing Drivers Club having been formed by Dr Dudley Benjafield. He adds that "the pinnacle of [Dr Benjafield's] racing achievement was when he took third place in the 1929 Le Mans race in a Bentley". Certainly this was one of Dr Benjafield's many fine achievements, but he should be best remembered, along with his co-driver, Sammy Davis, for having won the Le Mans race in 1927 under extremely difficult circumstances, again in a Bentley.
RICHARD SANDERS
Chairman
Bentley Drivers' Club
Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire
Sir: Jonathan Steele feels there was a serious omission from the national curriculum: the teaching of Christianity (letter, 18 May). He implied that it was not possible for children to learn the concept of right and wrong without study of the Bible. But most young children have a very clear understanding of what is right and what is wrong without ever having been exposed to biblical teachings.
MARK BLACKMAN
London SE14
Sir: The central issue of proportional representation is one of fairness and democracy - concepts which seem alien to the Institute of Directors (letter, 19 May). The opposition of the IoD demonstrates that British bosses still cling to their 19th-century attitudes, and is a great commendation for PR.
PHILIP D DELNON
Swanscombe, Kent
Sir: In Natasha Walter's coverage of Cherie Booth's intervention at a Childline conference (Comment, 17 May) we read: "Cherie Booth's recommendations would revolutionise the treatment of child abuse cases in Britain, and bring many more men to justice." Why does Walter assume that it is only men who perpetrate child abuse?
EDWARD CRABTREE
Leicester
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