The successful London “people’s pantry” where a week’s shop costs £3.50 (Report, 11 September) sounds remarkably similar to the Your Local Pantry scheme that has been running since 2013. It has 90,000 members across the country and is run by a partnership including Church Action on Poverty.
Hazel Palmer
York
• Re messages of condolence from children (Letters, 13 September), when a primary school class was asked for comments about my late sister-in-law, one child wrote: “Mrs W was very kind. When I burnt my bottom on the radiator she let me sit on a cushion.” Kindness comes in all sorts of surprising ways.
LB Gresham
Birmingham
• Liz Truss appears to be unhappy about economic progress since 2010 (How is Liz Truss’s government challenging ‘Treasury orthodoxy’?, 13 September)). Quite right too. Let’s call them the “Tory rot” years. What an honour to have your own palindrome.
Peter Brooker
West Wickham, London
• If they can’t stop document leaks (Report, 13 September), what hope is there that the National Drought Group can stem the watery ones?
Rupert Featherstone
Dickleburgh, Norfolk
• In a shop window near where I live, I saw the following: “Write drunk. Edit sober.” Wise words.
Meirion Bowen
London
• Is the Guardian going to print an extra large crossword and puzzles page for the bank holiday? It will help us republicans pass the time.
Pete Lavender
Nottingham
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