I bought a pint of lager and a brandy in a hostelry in London’s King’s Cross area last week for what I thought was a very reasonable £10.60. It was not until I received the brandy that I was dismayed. The liquid therein barely covered the bottom of the glass. Further inquiry revealed the dispensed measure as 10ml. Is this the smallest retail measure in the UK and do the licensing authorities condone such Scrooge-like measures?
John Garforth
Addingham, West Yorkshire
• It was good to see that a statue in memory of the peace campaigner Brian Haw is to be installed facing the big guns in the Imperial War Museum (Statue of peace protester Brian Haw to be installed in south London, 26 May). Readers might like to know that another memorial to him exists in the form of a bench on Whitstable beach, the result of a campaign by my late friend Richard Stainton, a man who in his life and work also waged peace.
Graham Jameson
London
• “Special shipments of British goods such as signed Beano comics will be among the first to be sent under the new arrangements” (UK’s post-Brexit trade deals with Australia and New Zealand kick in, 31 May). I checked the date and it’s not 1 April.
Marlies Branston
Bedford
• For prep school boarders like myself, grub during the war was somewhat spartan. However, limited rations and the narrow palette of the cook’s culinary skills were offset by a nightly drink of Bovril and hot milk (Letters, 30 May). More than 80 years on, it’s still a pleasure.
Alec Douet
Aylsham, Norfolk
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