Your letters on the kindness of strangers (2 January) took me back to my days as a duty sergeant at Huyton in the 1990s. A man walked into the station with more than £1,000 in a cash bag he’d found by a bank’s night safe. As we gathered round, another chap burst in, white as a sheet – he’d absent‑mindedly walked off and left the day’s takings behind. Reuniting the two was a rare joy: a small reminder that people can still surprise you.
Terry O’Hara
Liverpool
• I don’t like to pick holes in your inspiring article on communities supporting refugees (Report, 7 January), but Ashbourne is not in “the north of England”. It is in the East Midlands, a mere 140 miles from London. The north begins in Sheffield, 30-plus miles away.
Isabella Stone
Sheffield
• Years ago, driving towards the congested town of Woodstock in Oxfordshire, there was a large sign, “Woodstock needs a bypass”, below which a Peanuts fan had added “Snoopy needs a heart transplant” (Letters, 7 January).
Andrew Wright
Knowle, West Midlands
• If “schmaltz” (an integral part of Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine that is made from goose or chicken fat) is the correct answer to “sentimental cheese” (Quick crossword, 6 January), then I’m a bagel.
Adrian Brodkin
London
• If we had put as much effort into preventing climate change as we have into developing AI, think of what we might have achieved (‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate?, 3 January).
Jeanne Warren
Garsington, Oxfordshire
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