Over the Moon

I RECENTLY wrote to you concerning tracking down the Moon family of Southborough, as I had found war time photographs of Ronald and William Moon and wished to return them to their rightful owners.

Thanks to the readers of your newspaper I have found Ronald Moon's sister and the photographs are back where they belong.

I am grateful to all the people who contacted me and helped to solve an intriguing mystery.

Hilary Hinks

Staffordshire

Pond litter disgrace

I WOULD like to bring attention to the appalling litter problem that blights the very lovely area known as Sherwood Pond.

This could be an area of outstanding beauty with all kinds of wildlife and flora.

Instead it is strewn with every imaginable bit of rubbish – old mattresses, broken chairs, hundreds of beer cans, bottles and carrier bags, most of which are discarded by the fishermen who fish there but also by yobs with nothing better to do than throw all this flotsam into the pond. Surely something can be done about this disgraceful state of affairs.

Apologies to the decent fisher folk who use the pond responsibly. But the problem is just to great for a few folk like me who pick up a carrier bag full each time we go only to find the problem worse the next time.

Sue Kerby

Sandhurst Road

Tunbridge Wells

Double standards

JUST why are corrupt politicians who have made the false claims not sitting in a police station interview room looking into a camera and talking to the police just the same as we would be if we had done the same thing?

Obviously it depends on who you are. Talk about double standards!

Let's hope they all get their comeuppance over the next 12 months. We are a laughing stock.

Graham Lovett

Oatfield Drive

Cranbrook

NOTWITHSTANDING the mercenary interpretation of the rules on MPs expenses, the referee's decision is final – the electorate must decide.

The House of Commons should be dismissed by dissolution. MPs should be subject to re-selection and then, if nominated, face up to the vote of the people.

Tony Snitter

Brookmead, Hildenborough

Father's adoption

I WONDER if anyone has any memories of my father, John Douglas Divall. He was adopted as a baby in 1918 by a William and Fanny Divall.

When dad enlisted in 1937, having been a stockman (he joined the Royal Tank Regiment at Bovington) he was living at 54 Springfield Road, Southborough.

At some point in his Army career (he was at Dunkirk and also a POW from 1942 to '45) his adoptive mother, at least, moved to Tower Cottage, Horsmonden. By the time of his marriage to my mother Joan, in 1946, his father (adoptive) is listed as deceased, his occupation having been a tractor driver before he retired. Dad married in London.

He died in 1953 when I was a little girl.

Dad was born in Islington, London, to a James and Elizabeth Keir, and had several siblings. I've traced some of the birth family and they know nothing of dad. The strange thing is, my late mother told me I was named after his sister, Doreen Rosalie, and I have discovered since that this is in fact the name of his birth sister, born six years after him, though now passed away.

I would so like to find out more about dad, especially why he was adopted. Any information at all would be gratefully received. Email hartchoc@aol.com

Doreen Devalle

13 Greenthorpe Walk

Bramley

Leeds LS13 4LW

Marathon thanks

ON BEHALF of The Children's Trust, the official charity of this year's Flora London Marathon, I would like to say a very special thank you to all the runners, including celebrities and the Yellow Submarine Team, who took part in the marathon on April 26 in support of the trust.

More than 650 runners joined our team and have helped to raise what we hope will be more than £1m, making it the most successful event we have ever undertaken.

To join our team for next year's London Marathon please visit www.thechildrenstrust. org.uk/londonmarathon

Diana De Moura Stewart, London Marathon project manager, The Children's Trust

Tadworth