When the managers at Heathrow are deciding which flights to cancel (Report, 12 July), can I suggest that they start with the flights arriving between 4.30am and 6.30am? This would allow the residents of west London to sleep with the windows open and not resort to installing air conditioning. Another small contribution to net zero.
Norman Oswald
Richmond, London
• Barbara Brewis highlights the link between hunger and the French Revolution (Letters, 12 July). In a country where untold numbers have to choose between eating and heating, there must be huge relief in Westminster that the Tory leadership circus is taking place in the middle of a heatwave.
Mary Munford
Norwich
