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
