Outside a shop in this town, a sign reads: “When you buy from a small business you’re not helping a CEO buy a third holiday home. You are helping a little girl get dance lessons, a little boy get his first pair of football boots and a mum and dad put food on the table. Thank you for shopping local.”
Richard Titford
Sudbury, Suffolk
• Jacob Rees-Mogg should be wary of demanding use of imperial measure-ments when most others use metric (Rees-Mogg Esq bans metric, 27 July). Nasa’s $125m Mars Climate Orbiter burned up in 1998 owing to use of mixed units and failure to take into account conversions between metric and imperial. It was effectively lost in translation.
Dr Roger Walker
Bradford
• Could I suggest to Chris White (Payments: Thousands without mobiles could be frozen out, 27 July) that he moves to the Co-op bank? I have the same problem, but when I emailed it to say I had no mobile signal they said we could use email.
Mary Brown
Stroud, Gloucestershire
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is fun (Letters, 29 July) but Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there is a far greater work. It is a textbook of false logic; I thought it was required reading for politicians.
Peter Jarvis
Deganwy, Conwy
• Jessica Elgot (Lib Dems avoid Brexit in rural Wales campaign, 30 July) describes Brecon as an area where sheep outnumber people 10 to one. A more neutral way of putting it is that it is a largely agricultural area adjacent to the area of England where the Archers is located.
Keith Flett
London
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