"I feel it's all a big lie to bring attention to himself," that correspondent wrote.

"There will be no more travel on that road until the government takes care of the Indians," a correspondent wrote.

In fact this correspondent initially wrote to the children soon after they were taken to mainland Scotland.

"It need not be such a complicated question," wrote one correspondent, cutting to the chase for many others.

My correspondents wrote and called for another reason, too.

When it came to him he said, "All the correspondents in the hotel bar this evening will write about what happened.

Several correspondents have written to me at different times expressing the wish that we join forces in order to become more effective.

'He would take any amount of trouble to help us,' writes my correspondent.

"How nice that you have a trust fund," one correspondent wrote another last week.

"Also, virtually all foreign correspondents interview only a limited number of analysts," she wrote in her message.