Re Adrian Chiles’s article (It’s only a coat hanger. But it brings back such fond memories, 31 August), I’ve a lovely wooden coat hanger that was prized by my father, who was born in 1901. His initials were EG – he was not pleased when a “friend” turned it into EGG, but it’s precious to me.
Nesta Ross
Manchester
• To keep the art of whistling alive (Letters, 31 August), readers might care to slip their children a copy of my latest book The Stolen Songbird. It features Jacinta Monday, a world-famous whistler who can whistle anything: birdsong, whole arias, hymns, symphonies and sonatas.
Judith Eagle
London
• The study (Patients have better outcomes with female surgeons, studies find, 30 August) did not consider another possible cause: women were held to higher standards in their training, so they were a more select group.
Rita Summers
Pacific Grove, California, US
• Following Iain Duncan Smith’s comments on criminal damage to Ulez cameras (Opinion, 31 August), will Suella Braverman instruct police to investigate every case of this?
Rev Philip Belli
Bolton, Greater Manchester
• Good to see Rishi Sunak has got the hang of recycling at last, as Grant Shapps begins his fifth ministerial post in a year (Report, 31 August).
Tim Waite
Dundry, Somerset
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