Denise Brewster’s supreme court victory (Report, 9 February) is one further step towards a more equal society. My partner and I have been together for a long, long time, happily unmarried. Gay couples have won the right both for civil partnerships and marriage, and quite right too. Unmarried heterosexual cohabitees deserve the same – and we all deserve the right for cohabitation to be recognised by law.
Jol Miskin
Sheffield
• Andrew Bailey (How did rape become TV entertainment?, Letters, 4 February) writes about the blurring of fact and fiction at Henry’s school in The Archers. As the real headteacher of the school where Happy Valley was filmed, after the scene in which the sinister new teaching assistant was introduced, I was inundated with suggestions that I attend safer recruitment and safeguarding training.
Judy Shaw
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
• My father was a fisherman in the north-east of England and for him didles (Letters, 8 February) were long-handled nets kept in the sterns of small fishing boats for the recovery of anything accidentally dropped overboard.
Terry Carbro
Whitby, North Yorkshire
• I’ve received advice and ridicule in equal measure but not a single, syrup-soaked tinned lychee (Letters, 9 February). And I’m not paying P&P either.
John Bailey
St Albans, Hertfordshire
• How many lychees can you get in a 35mm film canister? Enough for a picnic of tinned lychees on Weetabix?
Richard Llewellyn
Doncaster, South Yorkshire
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