The splendid article on Wigan (Where tourists seldom tread, part 4: Five UK towns with hidden histories, 15 March) highlights the town’s proud mining heritage and its regeneration from industrial dereliction to areas of diverse ecological importance that now form a national nature reserve. It does much to dispel the images of dark, satanic mills, flat caps, clogs and whippets.
Ian Winstanley
Wigan, Greater Manchester
• I’m not sure that I would fit the bill as one of Sheena Roberts’s “male juggling role models” (Letters, 14 March) but, on getting divorced, I became a single parent to my 10-year-old daughter. I do recall a lot of juggling and constant tiredness – and I would do it again in a heartbeat. Now, 27 years later, I enjoy a little light babysitting before “giving back” my four grandsons.
Tom Stubbs
Surbiton, London
