As recent WhatsApp messages showed our government’s contempt for teachers (Report, 2 March), I doubt if any past or present education secretary watched A Special School on BBC Two. It showed what can be achieved for SEN pupils with decent funding, outstanding leadership and dedicated teamwork. Not a dry eye on board.
Ian Grieve
Gordon Bennett, Llangollen canal
• Vans bearing Cornish pasty slogans (Letters, 7 March) bring to mind a slogan seen in Australia on the trucks and skips of a waste collection firm: “Satisfaction – or double your rubbish back.”
David Simpson
London
• A couple of years ago I had to spend a few nights in hospital (Letters, 10 March). I told my partner I fancied an easy peeler. Proud as punch, he arrived next day with a mini vegetable peeler.
Liz Tunmer
Brighton
• Re your report (Scientists create mice with two fathers after making eggs from male cells, 8 March), is this so that one can babysit while the other goes to the pub?
Carolyn Stott
Tadworth, Surrey
• No chuffing wonder I couldn’t find the answer to the word wheel of 7 March (pirouette). It’s French. The rules stipulate no foreign words.
Dr Khosro S Jahdi
Headingley, Leeds
• 9 Across: Hair hanging in concentric circles (Quick crossword, 10 March)? That beats quantum theory! Some hairdresser.
Mike Wilson
Wigton, Cumbria
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