Selecting first alphabet from the row

[jamil Ahmad]

how can i make the select query to get the first alphabet in the string. actually i have a table for voting
messages(msgid(int),message(varchar))
data in the table is as follows

msgid ---- - message
========= -- =======
1 --- v jameel
2 --- vjohn
3 --- /#vjohn
4 --- @Vjameel
5 --- %sjohn
============================
i want to fetch only that rows whos first alphabet is v ommitting anything(special characters,numeric values) before that message
hope that this will clear my question
in my string there may be any special characters also like "%&#V jameel"
so in this case i want to fetch the V.

Thanks in advance