Love on the Humber

Martin Wainwright asserts (Who are you calling grim?, September 19) that the only mention in literature of Immingham is in an espionage novel by Frederick Forsyth. Not so. In John Le Carre's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Ann Smiley holes up with a lover in Immingham while George hunts the Circus mole.
Nick MacKinnon

nipm@wincoll.ac.uk

• At 71, I am far more worried about haemorrhoids than asteroids (Leader, September 19).
Allan Davis
Grimsby

• Camelot is disappointed with the decision to exclude it from making a fresh bid to run the Lottery (Lottery license decision bizarre, says Camelot, September 19). But surely unexpected let-downs are an integral part of the big game we call life?
John O'Byrne
Dublin
John.OByrne@enterprise- ireland.com

• Robert Lindsay was in a sitcom after Citizen Smith (Popular front, September 19.) He starred in Nightingales, which was broadcast late night on Channel 4. It annoys me that your TV writers appear to have social lives, go and see plays, films, concerts etc. rather than sit in front of the box all the time like me - after all, I'm only an amateur.
Robert Bassett
London
bertie138@hotmail.com

• In response to Peter Lawless (Letters, September 19), I can sadly confirm that there is one less pigeon on the streets of east Oxford, the bird in question obviously having got used to being able to stand in the middle of our normally busy road. I've never seen a two-dimensional pigeon before...
Jacqui Hill
Oxford

Winchester