I SAW your few lines in the Advertiser (April 21) in relation to the pub in Essex which was refused extra time for St George's Day but the O'Neill's pub around the corner which was granted an extension for St Patrick's Day.

Have we done mad in this country? Ken Livingstone, our so-called Mayor is spending thousands on a St Patrick's Day celebration.

I think the landlord of that pub should take his case to the Race Relations Committee. It ever there was a blatant case of racism this takes the biscuit.

JEAN FOTHERGILL

Village Way

Beckenham

Kent