Walk-in booster centres everywhere open all hours (Report, 12 December)? As of Sunday evening there is only one in Birkenhead for the whole of Wirral. Currently, the city of York has none. The NHS is brilliant, and let’s hope it can do it, but even in panto season genies are in short supply.
Dr Colin J Smith
West Kirby, Wirral
• Reading The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope (1864), I have just encountered “Sir Omicron”. Other characters in the novel are Sir Raffle Buffle and Major Fiasco – plus ça change.
Susanne MacGregor
Tonbridge, Kent
• It is all very well for those who refuse to be vaccinated to cite their “freedom” to make their choice. If they are hospitalised with Covid they may well be taking a bed away from someone waiting for a cancer operation. What about their freedom? There is only a finite amount of freedom available.
David Kirshner
Tealby, Lincolnshire
• I can well believe that wine from Dorking represents “Rest of the world” in Gerrard Raven’s local store (Letters, 12 December). I once searched for Worcestershire sauce in a local store and tracked it down in “Foods of the world”.
Anne Liddon
Tynemouth, Tyne and Wear
• Michael Bulley (Letters, 12 December) is right – you can’t record something that isn’t live. But “live recording” is a shortcut way of saying, “recording of a live performance”, as opposed to a studio recording that will have been extensively edited. It’s a useful distinction, in context.
Simon Townley
Toddington, Bedfordshire
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