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For the next seven months racing more than 31000 nautical miles the 46-year-old Cayard will be at

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For the next seven months, racing more than 31,000 nautical miles, the 46-year-old Cayard will be at the helm of £10m of blue-water racing yacht, which Disney is using to promote the sequel to its 2003 Hollywood blockbuster, Pirates of the Caribbean, to be released next summer."I like the pirate theme," said Cayard, who lives near San Francisco and in 1998 became the first American skipper to win what was then called the Whitbread Round the World Race "I think it will be huge with the non-sailing public. The skull and crossbones will fly defiantly and a crew of pirates will be given the freedom of the seas off Vigo, in north-west Spain, tomorrow. "The good news is that major historical issues such as sewage pollution are being addressed and their impact reduced," Baroness Young said.. Climate change has replaced pollution and overfishing as the biggest threat to the coasts of Britain, a study by the government's Environment Agency has found. Higher temperatures and rising sea levels have changed the nature of many of the fundamental problems faced by marine conservationists, said Barbara Young, the agency's chief executive. If this continues more and more MPs will recklessly vote according to what they think rather than what they are told to think. This must be stopped immediately before politics starts getting itself a good name.PHIL JANESCOULSDON, SURREY.

The Conservatives are already rudderless and Charles Kennedy is looking ever more ineffectual. The anti-discrimination law brought in by Harold Wilson's Labour Government was designed to fulfil his objective.STAN NEWENSPRESIDENT, LIBERATION, FORMERLY THE MOVEMENT FOR COLONIAL FREEDOM HARLOW, ESSEX Political crisis Sir: Tony Blair appears to be losing control of his party. This would allow any interested party to make a deduction as to the value of each component in the final grade awarded.MIKE MCHALESCAWBY, NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE Inoffensive atheists Sir: Julia Anderson writes (letter, 8 November), "Atheists and agnostics have no agenda to convert or make life difficult for religious believers." A lot of religious believers would be grateful to her if she could find an opportunity to remind the Communist Party of China that this is the case.ALAN NORMANBERLIN Anti-racist pioneer Sir: In paying tribute to the pioneers of anti-racism in Britain (leading article, 8 November) we should surely remember Fenner Brockway, who, as Labour MP for Slough, introduced Bills into Parliament to outlaw racism nine years in succession. It should be possible for the grades achieved to be reported separately too. Also of course, the fox may get away.DIANA WOODLEIGH KENT Defence of coursework Sir: An examination is intended to be a measure of the learning achieved over a period of study, but can a single three-hour examination realistically test a whole two-year course? It can only be a partial test, whereas continuous assessment (Johann Hari, 4 November) can be designed to cover the whole of the taught syllabus.VICTOR TAYLORMILTON KEYNESSir: Coursework and examinations are separately assessed.

The spectators of bear-baiting and cock-fighting get their pleasure and entertainment from watching pain being inflicted on the animals. In hunting the pleasure is in the chase; the kill is very quick. Collins French-English Dictionary gives "rabble" or "riff-raff", which is much milder.MARIE-FRANCE WEINERWHITELEAF, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE A quick kill Sir: Ray Racy (letter, 9 November) is wrong to equate bear-baiting and cock-fighting with hunting. I suspect that an equivalent youth in the UK would (a) be unaware of any remarks addressed to him by those in power (b) be unaware of who was in power, (c) revel in the description "scum".DAN RUBINSTEINLONDON NW1Sir: Mr Sarkozy undoubtedly fuelled discontent when he used the term racaille to describe the unruly youths causing trouble in Paris, but your newspaper and the British media in general made matters worse by inaccurately translating racaille as "scum".

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