Your headline “Patients resort to DIY dentistry as NHS options disappear” (6 February) could have been written for my husband. A retired technology teacher, he relishes a challenge, and has fashioned himself a perfectly serviceable tooth to replace a broken one. This on the day we learned our dentist was going private. She was fascinated by the enterprise and used their appointment time to research the material he had used and discuss the implications, rather than take an impression for a plate, which was the original plan – £3.99 versus £250!
Deirdre Burrell
Mortimer, Berkshire
• You state that “Mountain hares … are now restricted to Scotland” (Report, 25 January). We sometimes see them on moorland a few miles west of Sheffield. There was a pure white one last month on the Snake Pass to Manchester – roadkill, but shows they’re around. Is this the southernmost edge of their range?
John Birtwhistle
Sheffield
• I quite agree about the ephemeral appeal of James Charles (Letters, 6 February). Your correspondent asks “what will be remembered of John Charles a few decades hence?”, having forgotten the YouTuber’s name by the end of his own letter!
Ria Hopkinson
Holloway, London
• The best riposte to Anya Reiss’s complaint about actors (Whose line is it anyway? The battle of actor v playwright, 6 February) is probably Harrison Ford’s comment on the script of Star Wars: “George, you can type this shit, but you can’t say it!”
Derrick Cameron
Stoke-on-Trent
• Are high streets “a passing phase in history, a 20th-century phenomenon” (Letters, 7 February)? In Pompeii there are roads lined with shops.
Angela Brown
Chiswick, London
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