One of my most thrilling moments as a teenager in the late 1970s was the surprise of finding myself selling bread to Mark E Smith (Obituary, 26 January) in my Saturday job at Slattery’s bakery in Prestwich (not least due to the mere shock of considering that he actually ate at all). John Cooper Clarke was another occasional customer.
Christine Peacock
Prestwich, Manchester
• “A peal of bells is a carillon”, writes Alan Woodley (Letters, 25 January). Does he not remember the long series of Carillon films, all based on the appeal of belles? They also contained numerous camp analogies.
Les Masters
Bleadon, Somerset
• Re Princess Eugenie’s wedding announcement (Pass notes, 24 January), in the immortal words of Brenda from Bristol, “You’re joking. Not another one!”
Alex Kaminsky
Salford
• My partner delights in pointing out the idiosyncrasy in my Geordie accent when saying “ma(r)ster” and “pla(r)ster”, which I think are the only north-eastern pronunciations with the long A (Letters, 25 January).
Alan Pearson
Durham
• So universal credit will only bring “marginal savings” (Report, 26 January), but don’t despair – it will cause maximum worry and ruin the lives of many people. Job done.
Louise Morrey
Barlow, Derbyshire
• Bernard Hunt (Letters, 25 January)says “investors, entrepreneurs … care as much about other values as they do about money” . The sentence should, of course, have begun with the words “A tiny minority of”.
Douglas Graham
Hamilton, South Lanarkshire
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