When the managers at Heathrow are deciding which flights to cancel (Report, 12 July), can I suggest that they start with the flights arriving between 4.30am and 6.30am? This would allow the residents of west London to sleep with the windows open and not resort to installing air conditioning. Another small contribution to net zero.
Norman Oswald
Richmond, London
• Barbara Brewis highlights the link between hunger and the French Revolution (Letters, 12 July). In a country where untold numbers have to choose between eating and heating, there must be huge relief in Westminster that the Tory leadership circus is taking place in the middle of a heatwave.
Mary Munford
Norwich
• Shouldn’t the Cambridge Latin Course’s new female character be Caecilia, from her father’s nomen, rather than Lucia, from his praenomen? Sic in meo ludo sumptuoso didici (UK school Latin course overhauled to reflect diversity of Roman world, 10 July).
Priscilla Bench-Capon
West Kirby, Merseyside
• “We need a modern, democratic, functional constitution,” writes Natalie Bennett, who has a seat in the House of Lords (Letters, 12 July).
Jed O’Neill
Sheffield
• I can put on my knickers standing up and I do a weekly plan of menus (Letters, 11 July). I can stand on one leg for more than a minute. But I still can’t make marmalade.
Veronica McGregor (aged 75)
Sudbury, Suffolk
• Country Diary from Badenoch (13 May)? Is nothing safe from the Tory leadership candidates?
Michael Shotter
Bristol
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