Can someone help me with some songs? I work in an old people's rest home and I do singing with them.

One of the residents would like to know who sang 'Til The End Of Time and in what year? Also a song called The Gipsy. They are both old songs.

CA Mitchell, The Avenue, Moulsecoomb, Brighton

Marred by attack

I write in reply to Adam Trimingham's informative article on Shoreham airport (The Argus, September 8).

He is right to explain the benefits of developing Shoreham as a regional airport for small jets to provide useful passenger flights to other small airports in UK, France and elsewhere and that it should be better-linked to bus and train services and roads to develop as a good hub for East and West Susssex.

He gave us a fascinating insight into the municipal controls over the airport with a great deal of detail. I did not know that there was a derelict Shoreham station on the main line, for instance.

Where he falls down is in his attack on small planes and their pilots. These are integral to the whole industry. He needs to understand that the pilot of every civil aviation jet trained on a small single-engined aircraft to begin with and all our future civil pilots do so now.

He would never have the "attractive series of scheduled flights" he has the vision to describe if the pilots were not trained to fly them.

Shoreham, with a whole set of flying clubs training pilots to very high standards, is well placed to provide jobs for our school leavers and pilots for our airlines. The professionalism and dedication to safety at Shoreham is as high as anywhere in the country. If we ban small aircraft, the alternative is for our airlines to employ only people from abroad to fly our civil airliners.

Is that what he wants? There is enough stacked against the British trainee with the high fuel costs and lack of government training support (even the pilot training GNVQ has been withdrawn now) without opposition from journalists.

It is a shame such an informative and farsighted view of the potential of Shoreham was marred by this attack. His comments about small aircraft - "the little weekend plane, often flown by prattish pilots" - lower the standard of his article and are an insult to today's professional civil pilots and even to the World War Two pilots, many of whom trained in small aircraft such as Tiger Moths.

-Peter Baker, Plumpton Green