I’d like to wish Gaie Delap a very happy birthday for Friday (This 77-year-old climate activist should never have been jailed – and now faces a Kafkaesque struggle to get out, 9 January).
Janet Hulme
Wadebridge, Cornwall
• Is Andrea Dunbar “Bradford’s most famous playwright” (Report, 10 February)? Dunbar is one of the most famous. There is JB Priestley after all.
Barry Norman
Drighlington, Leeds
• Re (Is ‘sleep divorce’ the key to marital bliss?, 8 January), the first time my husband and I were unable to share a bed was due to his motor neurone disease, and was the lowest point in 53 years of marriage and love. The sadness on his face, combined with lack of speech, will haunt me for the rest of my life. Hold on to that hand!
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• On the subject of “a heat pump in every new home” (Letters, 5 January), the more sensible solution is to replace gas boilers with electric ones. While the cost of electricity is artificially fixed to protect the generation of electricity by gas, the cost of electricity from renewables is very low.
Len Dawes
Sheffield
• Thinking of descriptive terms for the coming year; perhaps the scandal of Musk stretching the truth could be referred to as Elongate? (Letters, 9 January).
Bob Ward
Hanwell, London
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