Thank you for telling us about the wonderful work of James Timpson’s company employing ex-offenders and supporting them in other ways (Report, 6 April). I already like Timpson’s outlets and will now make a point of using their services whenever possible. Then, to cheer me up further, you reported (in the Money section) on Nationwide’s housebuilding initiative, which seems to tick so many boxes. Here’s hoping it will be as successful as it deserves to be, and that many more similar developments will follow.
How lovely to read positive news at this time of ongoing gloom about the future of our country.
Barbara Foster
Welwyn Garden City
• What a contrast in Saturday’s Guardian! On the next page after the heartwarming article about James Timpson and the amazing work he does helping ex-prisoners to start a new life by employing them in his shops was one about how Philip Green intends to halve payments into the Topshop pension fund. Why is it Green and not James Timpson who is a knight of the realm?
Mike Carter
Nottingham
