I would like to take Micah Levy up on his comments ('Religious bigotry', Times Letters, November 15).

"Every road has telegraph poles and no-one objects". Correction not every road has telegraph poles and I've been objecting about the one opposite my house for some time, mainly due to a safety consideration.

One Friday afternoon, my outside line got struck by lightning while I was on the telephone. The fuse took most of the blast but it wasn't a pleasant experience and it was Tuesday before the service men arrived.

Moreover if the council were to try and use my property to put up a notional boundary, they'd get very short shrift. If they need to mark it they could put it on the lamp-post across the road.

What really riles me is Mr Levy's comment "that a fundamental part of this human rights is tolerance of other people's beliefs". Talk about casting stones.

With all due respect to him just how much tolerance is he showing to those of non-Jewish belief? There is no way any eruv can be constructed without physical means, which will have the effect of turning the enclosed area into a quasi-Jewish domain. Some showing of tolerance to be sure.

Patricia Ann Wilson

Woodville Road, New Barnet

November 20, 2001 11:36