Plenty of new jobs promised but no mention of new take-off flight paths causing even more noise to west London (Heathrow advertisement, 21 January). More important, no mention of pollution and the dire effects on health of diesel residues descending on millions of people beneath. Those who predicted that Sir Howard Davies (known locally as “the man who rose without trace”) would somehow come up with this solution, may being proved to be right.
Anna Ford
London
• Re the proposed Nicaragua canal. You ask “will it bring wealth and growth or confusion and destruction?” (Report, 21 January). I would hazard a guess that it will bring wealth and growth to the rich and confusion and destruction to the poor.
Mike Harrison
Bath
• After many failed attempts to “potty (seat) train” me, my late lovely wife asked me to sit on the porcelain at 3am one cold winter night (Letters, 21 January). What a shock to the system – more so if unexpected in a pitch-dark bathroom. Ever since then I’ve put the seat down (and still do as a conditioned reflex).
Joe Locker
Surbiton, Surrey
• When Josh Mackay has given birth at least once, he’ll have earned the right to demand the end of the toilet “seat-down” convention.
Lucy Craig
London
• With the interest in HP sauce, is it not time its royal warrant lapsed as it is now produced in the Netherlands despite its invention in Nottingham? If the royal family is interested, I could recommend One Stop Brown Sauce as an acceptable alternative, which is produced in Walsall.
Robert Dyson
Kenilworth, Warwickshire
• Jane Jones should come to Spain (Letters, 20 January). Here HP is pronounced “Atchee pay”.
Mark Green
Port Andraxt, Mallorca
