Never mind Partygate, soaring energy prices and hundreds of Covid deaths a day. Grant Shapps has got his priorities right. What could be more important than cutting train announcements (Train passengers in England to be given break from ‘endless’ announcements, 21 January)?
Sue Ward
Newcastle upon Tyne
• At a grammar school in the 1980s, we held fortnightly departmental meetings in a local pub (Letters, 20 January). The headmaster would plead with us not to all travel in the same car. He didn’t want the whole of his maths department to be wiped out in one go.
John McCrae
Herne Bay, Kent
