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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Letters

Hop-picking parents needn’t have worried

Old East Ender Vi Charlton returning to a hop farm last September as she used to do in the 1950s
East Ender Vi Charlton returning to a hop farm last September as she used to do in the 1950s. Photograph: Andy Hall for the Observer

Good job they didn’t prosecute parents in the 1950s (Prosecutions of parents up 25% after crackdown on truancy, 12 August) when many kids on our estate returned to school a week late in September because our mums took us hop-picking.
Ted Watson
Brighton

• Tony Blair says if Jeremy Corbyn is elected leader Labour faces annihilation (Report, 13 August). Within 45 minutes, presumably.
Graham Walsh
Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire

• It’s gonna be Blair wot wins it for Corbyn, methinks.
Robert Jenkins
Shipley, West Yorkshire

• Richard Taylor (Letters, 11 August) wonders who is funding the Corbyn campaign. I sent them a tenner.
Pam Lunn
Kenilworth, Warwickshire

• “Lol” is Welsh for nonsense (Letters, passim).
Huw Roberts
Creigiau, Caerdydd

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