The excellent obituary of Bryan Marshall (25 July) failed to mention his episode of Granada TV’s A Family at War. I had a few lines in the episode where he played a Polish soldier called Stashek; he was brilliant but it says something about this country that he had to go to Australia for work. The list goes on; Del Henney died this year too – such a waste.
Chris Sullivan
Pinner, London
• Jacob Rees-Mogg’s list of rules for his staff (Rees-Mogg Esq bans metric and hopes never to hear ‘hopefully’, 27 July) betrays his own lack of accuracy. Full stop is two words, not one; he has misspelt privy counsellor; and, as any touch typist knows, the double space after full stops went out with manual typewriters, as it is not required when using a PC.
Cherry Weston
Wolverhampton, West Midlands
• Are we now required to specify our lightbulbs in horsepower?
Peter Redman
Dorchester, Dorset
• Mike Hine (Letters, 29 July) might want to avoid Screwfix in Oxford. In the space of a couple of minutes on Saturday I was addressed as fella, chap, guy, buddy and mate by just one counter assistant. A simple Esquire would have sufficed.
Gabriel Brodetsky
Beckley, Oxfordshire
• What a disappointing Monday morning in this new era! How we miss that picture of the prime minister attending church.
Roger Hill (Canon)
Littleborough, Lancashire
• Facial recognition cannot tell my twin sons apart on Facebook (The briefing, 29 July).
Lesley Barnes
Greenford, London
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