At Calday Grange grammar school, my report (Letters, 31 January) stated: “Mason sometimes plays the buffoon.” To his everlasting credit, my father did not seem at all bothered. He said he was pleased that I was at learning to play at least one musical instrument.
Mason Edwards
Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire
• As a charity fundraiser at my secondary school, I could nominate which charities we collected for. I was a bit miffed when my report said: “A great supporter of causes, however lost.” Well, I supported the Anti-Apartheid Movement for more than 20 years, though maybe my present charity, Freedom from Torture, may take a little longer to see results.
Merryn Cooke
Manchester
• My favourite screen death (‘They deep-fried my head!’ Stars of Succession, The Sopranos, Spooks and more on their shocking TV deaths, 3 February) was the departure of Edna Cross, Harry’s dippy wife in Brookside. I was on the camera. The moment the Pearly Gates hove into view, Edna sobbed. The director cried “Cut”. He asked the actor, Betty Alberge, what was amiss. She replied: “I don’t want to die!”
Alan Marsden
Milnthorpe, Cumbria
• The response to Rachel Reeves’s speech outlining Labour’s economic plans (Editorial, 29 January) is best summed up by the words of Dora Gaitskell in 1962, after a speech by her husband, Hugh: “All the wrong people are cheering.”
Derrick Cameron
Stoke-on-Trent
• It was good to see a photo of a shining Royal Mail postbox on page 2 of Friday’s paper. Round here, no box has seen a lick of paint since Royal Mail was privatised.
Tom Worsley
London
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