Your article on the risk of type 2 diabetes for those who can no longer fit into jeans that they wore when 21 is unbelievable (Report, 27 September). Surely that can’t be right? It is a given fact that with age, a thickening of the waist is normal for both men and women. Does that mean that nearly all the population is at risk?
Lorraine Haldane
Hove, East Sussex
• In his piece on the film Starter for 10 (27 September), Peter Bradshaw says “absolutely nobody” used the term “uni” in the 1980s. Where I grew up, that word – to the exclusion of all others – was certainly used as shorthand for those higher educational institutions from at least the late 1960s. It still is.
Jack D Stephen
Markinch, Fife
• When I was a child in Scotland, the October school holidays were known as the “tattie holidays”, which, given that there were no potato fields in Glasgow where I lived, was probably a great relief to us city dwellers (Letters, 27 September).
Ian Arnott
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
• Someone in Ofgem must have a sense of humour when allocating energy suppliers. Following Green Energy’s collapse, I have just been told that my new supplier is Shell Energy (Report, 27 September).
Tony Rhodes
Ottery St Mary, Devon
• When I was a student at Sheffield University in the 1970s, above the loo roll holder in a toilet cubicle were the words: “English Lit degrees here” (Letters, 24 September).
Ivor Ambus
Leicester
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