Since Margaret Thatcher’s time at least, “U-turn” has been used as a derogatory label for a change of heart. Can journalists please stop using it when a politician reverses a bad decision (Report, 11 October)? These rare moments of sense should be celebrated, not denigrated as weakness.
Julian Stanford
Hurley, Berkshire
• Re King Charles’s coronation on 6 May (Report, 11 October), was any consideration given to the local elections on 4 May? Given that counting is likely to still be taking place, who thought this would be a good date? Unless the lack of elections in London was noted and those in the rest of the UK ignored.
Catherine Stephenson
Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire
• The compiler of Monday’s Wordsearch (words associated with holidays) evidently has a different lifestyle to me. Safari, cruise, hotel and ski trip were all included, but what about train, tent and wellies?
Peter Keam
Wigmore, Herefordshire
• Regarding “Hundreds of skeletons found beneath old Pembrokeshire department store” (12 October), did they also find the sign for the customer complaints desk?
Martin Stallion
Braintree, Essex
• My cherished exhortation from a teacher in 1955 – “Form two, keep quiet and listen to the noise you’re making” (Letters, 11 October).
Geoff Lewis
Hartford, Cheshire
• I recall my geography teacher saying: “Today I would like to run quickly through Switzerland.”
David Moores
York
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