The media’s worst nightmare (Report, 22 April). Press release: “Buckingham Palace, Thursday 7 May, 6pm. At 5pm, the Duchess of Cambridge gave birth to twins. There will be a further announcement at midnight.” And VE Day on 8 May. Still, it would be a good day for the Tories to bury bad news – one hopes.
Rev Maurice Wright
Shrewsbury
• Regarding expensive holidays in Nepal (Letters, 28 April). By all means send money to the disaster fund but don’t cancel the holiday. Postpone it, perhaps, but when you get to there, spend as much as you possibly can.
Dr Tariq Ali
Oxford
• If Patrick Barkham had managed to hitch a lift on the back of the white-tailed eagle seen at Blakeney Point (Notebook, 28 April) he probably would have ended up at a nest 17 miles away and about three miles north-east of Sandringham. A pair bred successfully in 2013, and in September of that year we saw a juvenile (presumably one of the offspring from this nest) being mobbed by a buzzard and a gang of crows near Ranworth.
Pete Thompson
Newton Aycliffe, County Durham
• Further to Ian Douglas’s lament (Letters, 28 April), perhaps he might like the suggestion from the Newcastle fanzine The Mag, that Newcastle and Sunderland season ticket holders should swap tickets, for at least they would get some pleasure watching games that way.
Ken Gambles
Knaresborough, North Yorkshire
• When driving on the A10 through Cheshunt and I see the sign “Theobalds Lane ahead, changed priorities” (Letters, 28 April), I always wonder, is it “settle down, get a proper job, a mortgage”?
Stella Sadler
Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire
• Do many people use the “baby change” facilities often available at public toilets?
Meryl Aldridge
Nottingham
