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A barbecue for £4,500 (The emergence of nan luxury barbecue: nan UK’s caller outdoor cooking obsession, 19 June)? For years I person barbecued for family and friends utilizing an upturned metallic beverage crate, a paving chromatic connected top, 4 bricks and an aged grill rack, pinch only nan charcoal costing thing – and not a burnt sausage successful sight. Maintenance free, it each stacks neatly down nan shed waiting for the adjacent heatwave.
Andrew Keeley
Warrington, Cheshire
I work together pinch Simon Jenkins that an extremity to sanctions connected Iran would beryllium a bully result of nan warfare (Trump thinks his freshly signed ceasefire woody is simply a victory. It is – for Iran, 18 June). As he says, opening up nan state to nan extracurricular world is acold much apt to dilute nan regime’s grip connected nine than continued bombing. The aforesaid logic applies to Afghanistan.
Brendan O’Brien
London
If nan US says nan strait of Hormuz is unfastened but Iran says it is closed, does it beryllium successful a authorities of quantum uncertainty, aliases is this mobility resolved simply, successful position that moreover Donald Trump tin understand, by reflecting that Iran holds each the cards (Report, 21 June)?
Mark de Brunner
Burn Bridge, North Yorkshire
My grandmother’s only joke was astir a travel successful South Shields ( Letters, 18 June). She was connected a horse-drawn unfastened charabanc. A new rider sewage on. The driver asked: “Are you f’Harton?”, to which they replied: “Na, it wasn’t me, it must’ve bin nan horse!”
Phil Bloomfield
Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire
“The adjacent position is Wapping”, but apparently it has short platforms, truthful it can’t beryllium each that big.
Phil Wainwright
London
