Interesting to see (Feast, 12 January) the vegan alternatives of aquafaba (egg white), coconut milk (cream) and nut butters (butter). But my ordinary eggs, cream and butter are British-grown and locally sourced – the eggs from only half a mile away – and so don’t come burdened with the huge food miles of these replacements. What is the environmental cost of vegan alternatives?
Christine Raper
Honnington, Shropshire
• “As soon as this pub closes” (Letters, 16 January) – with 15 to 20 pubs still closing every week, maybe the chancellor and his friends in pub-owning businesses should reflect on the current rising unrest and consider lowering taxation and ditching their failed business model before it’s too late and we’re all ready to “man the barricades”.
Bob Brook
Otley Pub Club, Leeds
• I’m happy for Mary Rogers and her enjoyment of the Jonny Wilkinson picture (Letters, 15 January). For women in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland the emotions aroused by this memory may well be rather different. In the interests of balance I look forward to similar pictures covering our iconic team members so we can share the joy.
Anne Cowper
Swansea
• Please, Mary Rogers, do not presume to represent “every woman in England”; the only people I have ever wanted to mother are the children to whom I gave birth, regardless of their rugby skills.
Roz Treadway
Sheringham, Norfolk
• As well as Virginia Wade in 1977 (Letters, 15 January), Ann Jones was another British champion at Wimbledon, winning the title in 1969.
Ann Wills
Ruislip, Middlesex
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