What a pity that Lucy Mangan’s review of Colin from Accounts (11 April)(12 April) failed to mention the star of the show – Colin himself, a border terrier. As a border terrier owner, and moderator of the Devon Border Terrier Owners Facebook group, I was amazed at Colin’s acting skills – so unlike the breed as I know it.
Rob Parrish
Starcross, Devon
• Dr Tabitha Winnifrith (Letters, 14 April) is quite right that our focus should be on quality of life and ensuring a good death. This can only be achieved through better funding of palliative care services. There’s an observation in medical circles that the reason coffin lids are screwed on is to stop the oncologists giving any more chemotherapy.
Dr Robert Boon
Manchester
• Greg Hands, chairman of the Tory party, appeared on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme on Sunday. The palm of his left hand appeared to be covered in a mass of blue Biro scribbles. Is this the only way that a senior Tory minister can remember what the right hand is saying?
Gillian Mortimer
Harlton, Cambridgeshire
• Re Peter Russell’s dilemma of whether to assist in his brother-in-law’s swimming pool commissioning on 6 May or attend the coronation at the Abbey (Letters, 14 April), why does he not enjoy that day of UK pageantry among friends with a dish of US-inspired chlorination chicken?
Dr Jonathan J Ross
Sheffield
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