Congratulations to the Guardian for its role in the campaign to save Millwall FC from the developers. Barney Ronay is not strictly correct, however, in saying that only the Lib Dem leader Tim Farron backed the opposition to the scheme “while other leaders remained silent” (Sport, 26 January). The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition co-founder Bob Crow, a lifelong Millwall fan, opposed the scheme from the start and, just days before his tragically early death in 2014, was urging Lions fans to lobby a Lewisham council meeting. This fight has been a long one and it is the local working-class community that has won it.
Clive Heemskerk
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition national agent
• “Look, does nobody else feel that Rob has had a rough old deal?” asks the sainted Ms Banks-Smith (A month in Ambridge, G2, 1 February). Yes, Nancy, I do. It’s a creeping twinge of sympathy which, until your question, had dared not speak its name.
Maggie Winkworth
London
• Do we really need a two-page article on how to tuck in our shirts and jumpers (Go tuck yourself, Style, G2, 1 February)?
David Wright
Durham
• Continuing the theme of mixed units (Letters, 1 February), at one time plaster board came in four measurements: imperial by imperial, metric by metric, imperial high by metric wide and metric high by imperial wide. The different types were identified by colour-coded edges.
Tony Meacock
Norwich
• A while ago the listening charity The Samaritans became Samaritans (Letters, 1 February). Will you become Guardian?
Elwyn Taylor
London
• I used to make gaskets for my Matchless motorcycle out of Weetabix packets back in the 1960s (Letters, 1 February).
Rowan Vuglar
London
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