Flicking through the paper, I remarked that it was all bad news and upsetting items. Then I came across the centrefold photograph taken in Erzurum, Turkey and found myself close to tears. Young and old chess players together in a coffee house. What a great picture.
Carol Taylor
Darley Dale, Derbyshire
• Regarding unusual measurements (Letters, 15 March) my Scottish mother used to send me to the local Co-op to purchase a forpit of potatoes: a fourth part of a stone, ie three and a half pounds. The cost in 1950 was thruppence, compared to £1.60 for the same weight of spuds today.
Dr Allan Dodds
Bramcote, Nottinghamshire
• We must not forget the measurement of beauty, the Helen, which is enough to launch a thousand ships, and the milli-Helen, which is the beauty required to launch one ship.
Bob Bowling
Heysham, Lancashire
• Ed Davey suddenly remembers that so-called UK nuclear weapons are effectively controlled by the US and Trump (Report, 15 March) but simultaneously forgets that the presence of nuclear weapons is key to making the UK a potential target. We would be much better off without them, financially, morally and defensively.
Philip Gilligan
Milnthorpe, Cumbria
• If Keir Starmer heeds Ed Davey’s advice about developing our own independent nuclear deterrent, can we be sure that the contract won’t go to Serco?
Simon Theobalds
Shawford, Hampshire
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