2 months ago
Flicking done nan paper, I remarked that it was each bad news and upsetting items. Then I came crossed nan centrefold photograph taken successful Erzurum, Turkey and recovered myself adjacent to tears. Young and aged chess players together successful a java house. What a awesome picture.
Carol Taylor
Darley Dale, Derbyshire
Regarding different measurements (Letters, 15 March) my Scottish mother utilized to nonstop maine to nan section Co-op to acquisition a forpit of potatoes: a 4th portion of a stone, i.e. 3 and a half pounds. The costs successful 1950 was thruppence, compared to £1.60 for nan aforesaid weight of spuds today.
Dr Allan Dodds
Bramcote, Nottinghamshire
We must not hide nan measurement of beauty, nan Helen, which is capable to motorboat a 1000 ships, and nan milli-Helen, which is nan beauty required to motorboat 1 ship.
Bob Bowling
Heysham, Lancashire
Ed Davey abruptly remembers that alleged UK atomic weapons are efficaciously controlled by nan US and Trump (Report, 15 March) but simultaneously forgets that nan beingness of atomic weapons is cardinal to making the UK a imaginable target. We would beryllium overmuch amended disconnected without them, financially, morally and defensively.
Philip Gilligan
Milnthorpe, Cumbria
If Keir Starmer heeds Ed Davey’s proposal astir processing our ain independent atomic deterrent, tin we beryllium judge that nan statement won’t spell to Serco?
Simon Theobalds
Shawford, Hampshire
