Your article (Graduates should ‘rip up’ their student loan bill, says expert, 18 July) included helpful advice for students panicking about rocketing loans. But the coalition government reneged on its promise to raise the income threshold every year, and it has been frozen at £21,000 until at least 2021. In the light of this, how confident can graduates be that, if they take Martin Lewis’s advice not to pay off their loan early, a future government will not increase the payment period beyond 30 years?
Rosetta Delisle
London
• The Humber Bridge in Hull (Heritage listings for Hull include Larkin’s flat and Humber Bridge, 17 July)? No! Its towers are in Hessle and Barton-upon-Humber. It may have been listed as part of Hull’s city of culture designation but it has never been in Hull.
Jenny Haynes
Horkstow, North Lincolnshire
• No thanks to John Richardson (Letters, 18 July) for spoiling the challenge and enjoyment of last Saturday’s prize crossword by revealing the theme in your pages. The first rule of Prize Crossword Club is that you don’t publicly discuss a prize crossword until it is past its submission date.
Michael Crapper
Whitchurch, Hampshire
• I agree about the loss of enjoyment when three letters, rather than two, are given as clues in the Codeword puzzle (Letters, 18 & 19 July). If would-be solvers need this extra help, could the third letter be hidden at the foot of the page?
Marilyn Hulbert
Bath
• If you don’t revert to the familiar two letters, we regular solvers will have to arrange for an equerry with a bazooka to come riding along on an aardvark. Also, why is there no Codeword on a Saturday?
John Smurthwaite
Leeds
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