I COULDN'T help feeling amused after reading Hugh Pender's letter about pigs flying before peace is achieved in the Middle East (HAS, Jan 18).

I wonder if he read the article on Page 27 headlined "Scientists get the go-ahead to create hybrid embryos"

(Echo, also Jan 18)? It won't be long, Hughie boy, it won't be long.

Ed Southgate, Stockton.