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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Letters

Why going to Wales gives you butterflies

Painted lady butterfly
Painted lady butterfly. ‘Clearly they have realised that a better lifestyle is on offer over the border in Wales,’ writes Anne Cowper. Photograph: Paul Chambers/Getty

Tony Greaves asks for Israel to be treated like other states (Letters, 26 June) on the very day that Britain, after a wait of 70 years, treats Israel like other states with a first royal visit.
Mark Drukker
Reading, Berkshire

• If Peter Hanson (Letters, 26 June) just crossed the Bristol Channel, he would find that, very sensibly, his butterflies have decamped to the Gower peninsula. Walking on the cliffs over the last week I’ve been besieged by butterflies of all kinds – clearly they have realised that a better lifestyle is on offer over the border in Wales.
Anne Cowper
Swansea

• Re the unexpected delivery of 4,500 doughnuts to Old Trafford cricket ground (Sport, 26 June). It’s a pity Jack Simmons is not still playing as he could have polished them off after a fish and chips lunch.
Michael Cunningham
Wolverhampton

• Your feature on the rise of cup sizes (Bra-vo!, 26 June) reminds me of an intriguing question. In my gym-going days I was always fascinated that quite a lot of women put their bras on back-to-front and then twisted them round. Presumably this made them easier to fasten. Does this still happen?
Susan Major
York

• Helen Major (Letters, 26 June) asks whether other Morris Minors have been used by gangsters. Niall Griffiths’ excellent novel Wreckage follows two pitiful Liverpool gangsters marauding around north Wales in an increasingly battered Moggy. It doesn’t end well for them or it.
Aidan Byrne
Wolverhampton

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