AS Sherwood Forest Hospital's lead for organ donation, I wanted to share news of our successful public event at King's Mill Hospital.

Some may remember that the event was initially reported in the Post ("Dad backing organ donor campaign", March 8) as we had a guest in campaigner Keith Sudbury.

We had around 35 people attend the evening and all the speakers were excellent.

Keith touched everyone present as he discussed his son Adrian's battle against leukaemia.

The team from NHS Blood and Transplant were also very informative and impressive.

I talked to a number of attendees afterwards.

Many were spurred-on by the event and were now seriously considering joining the organ donation list.

For readers who couldn't attend the event but want to learn more about organ donation, please go online to visit www.organdonation. nhs.uk, www.blood.co.uk and www.anthonynolan.org

DR PAUL SMITH

Consultant Anaesthetist

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield

TONY Wilkinson is a little disturbed regarding the 12A certificate given to two recent films which contain swearing, sex and violence (Your Views, March 9).

He rightly asks whether we are exposing our children to the adult world far too quickly. The simple answer is yes.

During the last 60 years, I have witnessed the demise of moral standards in society which has led to certain unsavoury aspects of life becoming easily accessible to the younger generation.

Parental responsibility to instil moral discipline in their children has disappeared.

It has been replaced by the belief that exposing children to the seedier side of life at an early age will prepare them for the "real world".

I think parents who believe this are abandoning their duty to protect and prolong a wonderful period of their children's lives which, sadly, only happens once. It's called childhood.

M BAMFORD

Grange Close

Lambley

WE read on a regular basis about people who are dissatisfied with the treatment they or their relatives receive when admitted to hospital.

So let me reflect on my findings.

My father was admitted to City Hospital on January 2.

He spent nine and a half weeks on Southwell Ward where he could not have had better care.

The doctors and nursing staff work very hard, yet nothing was too much trouble for them. We only had to ask and they obliged us with kindness, courtesy and compassion.

Doctors and consultants gave us regular updates on my father's condition and were always kind, sympathetic and very helpful with answers to our questions.

My family and me would like to say a very big thank you to everybody on Southwell Ward for all of your hard work and kindness in trying to make my father Ronald Burton better.

Thank you, you could not have done better.

KEN BURTON

Redland Close

Chilwell

I WRITE about sites where there have been fatalities and flowers have been left to mark the spot.

Surely the relatives or council could remove these after a week as there seems little respect for the deceased with a lot of dead flowers and wrappings blowing and wilting in the wind?

JE JELLY

Trentham Gardens

Aspley

I WOULD like to say how much I laughed and enjoyed Oonagh Robinson's article, "Sounds familiar as song lyrics baffle the hard of hearing" (March 10).

I've suffered from Mondegreen for years.

I have had two hearing-aids for some years now and recently had an operation on my left ear.

The article really cheered me up. I am not alone.

I reckon I could have been on Britain's Got Talent, if only I knew the proper words to songs!

Unfortunately my husband can hear a pin drop and if he puts his ear to the ground I swear he can hear cowboys and Indians coming!

Years ago I asked my late mother whether she would buy me Bobby Vee's Take Good Care Of My Baby.

She went into the record shop and said: "I think the record's called Take Good Care Of Yourself!"

Please ask Oonagh to keep cheering us up during the recent horrid happenings in Japan and Libya, and this horrid recession too.

ELSIE MARSHALL

Abbey Lane

Aslockton

AJ Askew raises some valid questions about human rights legislation (Your Views, March 16) but gets the target wrong.

I wonder if people will ever understand that the EU and European Courts are entirely separate bodies.

The EU has about 27 members and the European Courts have, I believe, 46 members. They are totally separate bodies.

On the issue of human rights, we created the European Courts to stop governments killing people.

Why is this such a bad thing?

ROBERT DAWSON

Valley Road

Carlton

POOR Mr Businessman, having to pay £1.36 per litre like the rest of us ... or so he would have us believe.

If he were honest he would explain to us that after VAT and income tax at 40 per cent tax it nets down to 52p per litre; if he pays VAT and tax at 20 per cent it nets down to 79p per litre.

If he has a firm, is not registered for VAT and does not make enough profit to pay the basic rate of income tax, then I suggest he is in the wrong business.

PETER SCOTTON

Crowthorn Gardens

Nottingham

AS an ex-Londoner, I am aware of the expression "Civilisation stops at Watford".

It is meant as a snub to the north and the "Near North", which is the name a London friend gave Nottingham before I left to take up asylum here from a Heathrow flight path.

But looking at the expression, it is a double-edged sword.

The Nottingham folk could well use the expression when looking south and I don't suppose that was thought of when it was coined.

Have I gone native?

COLIN D CAMPBELL

Scalford Drive

Wollaton Park

ANIMAL Aid is launching its Third Nationwide Youth Art and Poetry Competition for young people between the ages of 11 and 16.

Is it right to eat animals? is this year's theme and the deadline for entries is May 27.

They should marked on the back with the entrants' name, age and address and sent to: Art and Poetry Competition, Animal Aid, The Old Chapel, Bradford Street, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 1AW.

KELLY SLADE

Animal Aid