REGARDING your article on male circumcision for religious reasons being made available by the NHS (LET, October 25), what will be next -- the legalising of "female" circumcision, which is still illegally carried out in this country?

The NHS is already on its knees, struggling to cope with clinical necessities and can well do without having cosmetic surgery forced on to it.

HARRY ROBINSON, Juniper Court, Woodside Road, Accrington.