AS usual we began a new year with good and bad news, but surely your correspondents concerning the Kit Kat advertisement have missed the tongue in cheek.

Do they know that a similar ad the same day in the Oriental Daily News featured Chris Patten and Lu Ping with the same caption? Here we go, protecting the Royal family (they don't need our help) and blaming the Swiss Government (they couldn't care less).

If we are going to drag in a Mars bar what about a Snicker or two? JAMES RAMSAY Wan Chai