Is there not a sick-bay or other quiet place at Westminster where a migraine sufferer (for example) is able to lie down for a couple of hours, before briefly entering the lobbies for “historic” votes such as the one to trigger article 50 (Absent MP who ‘fell ill’ accused of bottling vote, 3 February)? Surely that would be much less stressful than trying to cross London in the rush hour, less than 90 minutes after having taken an active part in a debate?
Fr Alec Mitchell
Manchester
• Congratulations on a fantastic piece of investigative journalism in helping save Millwall FC (Sport, 28 January). As a very long suffering fan of Coventry City, could I ask you to please turn your attention to our plight. Millwall was threatened by one drastic cut, we are dying from a thousand cuts.
Peter Davis
Harwich, Essex
• Re mixed units (Letters, 2 February), my favourite is the BBC sports commentator who referred to a high jumper inching his way up, a centimetre at a time.
Peter Malpass
Bristol
• It’s great to know that Star Wars heroes also looked to Dame Vera in their darkest hour (Vera Lynn to mark 100th birthday with album, 2 February), as you report she was “known as the ‘force’s sweetheart’”.
Ben Staveley-Taylor
Oxford
• Most of the 20 regions of Italy do not have a definite article (Letters, 3 February), but a few do: for example, the Veneto (masculine singular), the Friuli (ditto) and le Marche (feminine plural). Other than the last one (literally the “marches”) I have no idea why this is so.
Dr Richard Goy
London
• The company that now owns Weetabix must be delighted at the almost daily free advertising in the Guardian (Letters, 3 February). I have mine with milk, in bed, reading the Guardian.
Jean Jackson
Seer Green, Buckinghamshire
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