As a lifelong Stockport County supporter, I’d have more sympathy with Southampton fans bemoaning another player leaving for Liverpool (Letters, 29 December) if their club hadn’t signed our manager, goalkeeper, two defenders and a midfielder as a job lot in the late 1990s.
Ian Grieve
Gordon Bennett, Shropshire Union canal
• Is Helena Newton (Letters, 29 December) suggesting that taxpayers have the right to know about the bedroom habits of everyone that they help to fund? I imagine that many teachers, healthcare workers, refuse operatives etc would feel this was rather intrusive. Should it apply to the privately employed too? Would I be able to ask for full disclosure from my gardener?
Frances Wilson
Boston, Lincolnshire
• Many parks are still named after George V and George VI (Letters, 29 December), presumably to mark important events in their lives. In view of the number of notable royal events and anniversaries we are living through, would it not be reasonable to ask the royal family to contribute to their memory by contributing to parks and open spaces for the benefit of local communities, as used to happen?
Marian Nyman
Whitstable, Kent
• Half Man Half Biscuit (Letters, 28 December) have a song for every occasion. With weather conditions as they are this week, I suggest Keeping 2 Chevrons Apart is good advice.
Melanie White
Reading
• But did the panda agree to share the flight with Thatcher (Concorde with a panda? Thatcher refused to pander, 29 December)?
George Healy
London
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