SIR - Just recently as I've read the awful headlines about, for example, the yobbish behaviour in Ivegate (T&A, July 30), I've found myself desperately thinking of the wonderful Spamalot/Python song, Always Look On The Bright Side of Life, as some sort of coping mechanism.

So let's be positive and anticipate that the forthcoming exam results will show (yet again) another improvement accompanied by pictures of youngsters waving pieces of paper about and hugging each other.

Didn't a little lad in a fairy story say: "But the Emperor hasn't got any clothes on" to which, I suppose, Ernie said to Eric: "This boy's a fool"!

Sid Brown, Glenhurst Road, Shipley