• I now see Keir Starmer as the Gareth Southgate equivalent (sensible, balanced, adult) as Labour leader and PM in due course. I wonder what odds the bookies would offer?
Jim Michie
Chester
• By the 1970s sanitary products were no longer wrapped in brown paper or produced from a back room (Letters, 6 July), but could be bought in department stores. However, they were generally located among the knitting wools. The strange juxtaposition was, apparently, based on the assumption that this section was least likely to be visited by men.
Anne Liddon
Tynemouth
• Re the interview with Gareth “Alfie” Thomas (Saturday interview, 6 July)and the issue of coming out in sport. Although there has yet to be a film of his story, there was a great play entitled Crouch, Touch, Pause, Engage by Robin Soans. It toured in 2015 and was well received for its sympathetic view of his life.
Robert Gifford
Milton Keynes
• Your correspondent was not the first to reach Marrakech in a Morris Minor (Letters, 5 July ). We arrived, four up with full camping gear in this modest vehicle, in 1966. It was there we heard the wonderful news: England had won the World Cup.
Giles Youngs
Drinkstone, Suffolk
• Our beautiful pale blue Morris Traveller was stolen from a car park in Grantham in 1977. It was not found until several months later parked outside Holloway prison with children playing in it. It was never the same again.
Marion and Bill Goodhand
Welbourn, Lincolnshire
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