While I am sorry to see the photo archive move to London (Letters, 6 February) I find it ironic that Bradford council is happy to do to Ilkley what London does to it. It has closed our Manor House Museum, taken the exhibits to Bradford and proposes selling the building, which was originally bequeathed to the people of Ilkley, presumably keeping the proceeds. They too can be accused of “metropolitan cultural fascism”.
Tim Jerram
Ilkley
• Having just spent a day judging over 1,500 photographs (both digitally projected and prints) as part of a national exhibition, can I point out to Les Summers and others holding similar views that looking at a print is the only true way to appreciate a photograph. Not only are the colours and tonality exactly how the author intended but the nuances of surface reflection and texture add a dimension that often lifts an image and can never by reproduced in a photograph viewed digitally.
Dr Brian Law
Macclesfield
• It is time the BMA found an alternative for the term “junior doctor” for any doctor in hospital under consultant level. In modern usage “junior” refers to someone under age 11. Hunt and the Department of Health are taking shameless advantage, trying to depict these doctors as irresponsible children instead of highly trained people who may have to make life or death decisions daily.
Pamela Radford
Leeds
• Is anyone making an estimate of the number of birth defects (Brazil’s Olympic struggle, 5 February) that can be predicted to result from the widespread and possibly reckless use of pesticides to reduce, only temporarily, the mosquito population?
JL Summers
Lancaster
• Big mistake giving names to all these storms. Clearly they feel important and befriended, so they keep coming back. Nobody now could possibly claim that human activity does not encourage climate change.
Ann Harris
Cornhill-on-Tweed, Northumberland
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