If the Department for Transport has got a spare £1.7bn to spend on a tunnel, the sole purpose of which seems to be to stop people getting a free view of Stonehenge as they drive past (Stonehenge campaigners’ last-chance bid to save site from road tunnel, 11 December), can I suggest that it spends it on more urgent problems, such as filling in and resurfacing Britain’s crumbling roadways?
Pete Lavender
Nottingham
• Alex Petridis’s top two carols (The 20 greatest Christmas carols – ranked!, 7 December) are the same as mine: O Come, All Ye Faithful and In the Bleak Midwinter. The second has the best words and the first a superb descant that, when sung by a choir accompanied by an orchestra, is glorious. From 1 December to Christmas Day, I play it loudly while making breakfast.
David Rose
Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands
• The mayor of Oslo said she was keen to reduce the carbon footprint of the Christmas tree sent every year to adorn Trafalgar Square “as she touched down in London on Thursday” (Trafalgar Square Christmas tree must cut its carbon footprint, says Oslo mayor, 6 December). The first step to reducing the tree’s carbon footprint: don’t fly to London for the annual jolly.
Tim Exton
Seattle, US
• Like Manchester, Liverpool also has a copy of the Parthenon marbles, at the Walker Art Gallery, presented by George IV to the Liverpool Royal Institution in 1821 (Letters, 8 December). There is also a copy in Edinburgh College of Art. Perhaps the king could support a copy being made for the British Museum.
Xanthe Brooke
Wirral, Merseyside
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