Michelle Knight: if there is a more powerful example of courage through adversity, I haven't seen it.
Laura Mellor
Southsea, Hants
Michelle Knight survived all those years of hell with nothing but pure, indomitable human spirit. She is inspirational and I hope she knows that. I also hope she goes on to find happiness and peace.
Pauline Vallance
Beith, Ayrshire
How can Bella Bathurst claim that Better Together is described by its "friends" as "Bitter Together", when it's clear this is a caricature put forward by its enemies?
Kenneth Fee
Stepps, North Lanarkshire
"The yes campaign is led by the Scottish National party… but also includes the Greens, the Scottish Socialist party and the Radical Independence Campaign." So why are all the young voices for yes in your article from the SNP?
Jessica Yuill
Glasgow
I love Weekend, but this is not the first time you have printed a piece that is derisive and insulting to the north-east, and only gives weight to Lord Howell's now notorious indictment of this area. I would bid Andy Beckett make a return trip and pay a little more attention to the sectors that do thrive here, alongside the beauty and luminosity he so briefly makes mention of.
Ruth Hedley
Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
Andy Beckett, in his search for green shoots in the north-east (10 May), finds evidence in renewable energy but makes no mention of the process industries, life sciences, the digital industry, or even car manufacture. And if two and a half hours by train to London every 30 minutes makes it our remotest region, try telling that to those living in Cornwall and other parts of the south-west.
Nigel Dotchin
London SW11
A former prison governor assuring us that Max Clifford "will, for years, be seriously beaten by prisoners". Er, yes. What happened to duty of care, though?
Barry Hewlett-Davies
Brighton
If nine-year-old Samuel had asked an astronomer how far can our eyes see, he would have learned that he can see things much farther away than the sun. If he goes outside on a clear night and sees the stars, he's looking at objects so distant that their light travels for many years before it reaches the Earth. In fact, he's seeing starlight that has been travelling across space since long before he was born.
Dr David Harper
Cambridge
So, "A man went to the optician..." and "a 6ft man" can see 5km away – evidently Samuel, nine, is interested only in the visual capacity of men, not women? One doesn't need perfect vision to see that sexism starts with the way words are used.
Nigel Woodcock
Manchester
Now if Tim Dowling would just put his dogs on a lead when he visits the park at night, he'd be able to keep the dogs under control and wouldn't waste time searching for them. He would also be able to clear up after them when they foul the park, thus making the park a nicer, safer place for everyone else.
Grahame Sturges
Penarth
I wonder if one week you might – in support of my endeavour to get more than three questions right – permit me to compile the quiz?
Paul Graham
Ledbury, Herefordshire
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