We love to keep in touch with what is going on in St Helens through your paper on the Internet, particularly regarding 'The Pies Have It'.

It was interesting to see mail from Keith and Win Smith, as we are friends with them but lost contact with them many years ago. However, when I bought a computer I looked through the Grapevine section associated with your newspaper and saw their name and e-mail address.

We are now able to contact them quite often. We've visited them in Queensland a few times and they have been down to Sydney to see us so keep up the good work in helping ex-pats to find one another in different countries. We look forward to reading the Star each week.

Pam and Dave Brisco, Via e-mail from Australia

padbrisco@bigpond.com.au