I hope that by using the Sex Pistols’ phrase “England’s dreaming” in your headline (England’s dreaming: Euro 2020 final offers chance to scratch 55-year itch, 7 July) you have not tempted fate. The full line from their version of God Save the Queen is “There is no future in England’s dreaming”.
Peter Holdridge
Leicester
• Brilliant! The solution to a shortage of HGV drivers is clearly a weakening of safety regulations making it more likely that tired drivers will cause accidents (Working hours rules to be relaxed to ease UK lorry driver shortage, 7 July).
Prof Trevor Curnow
Lancaster
• I am pleased that Roger Lightup has seen his surname in print (Letters, 6 July). I, however, have a much better chance, especially on car insurance claims.
Annette Dent
Keighley, West Yorkshire
• You report on a farmer’s son who does not wish “to milk cows 24/7” (7 July). I suspect the cows wouldn’t be all that keen either.
Pete Bibby
Sheffield
• Between them Lesley Barnes (Letters, 6 July) and Dennis Lane (Letters, 7 July) show that Oscar Wilde had it right: “The good end happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”
John Ashby
Oxford
• I shall continue to wear a mask in public for the foreseeable future. It is cheaper than buying a much-needed new set of dentures.
Brian P Moss
Tamworth, Staffordshire
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