Readers who were moved by the article on Kate Munger’s Threshold Choirs (‘It was the last time Mum smiled at me’: the choirs singing to the dying in three-part harmony, 17 November) may like to know that similarly, in the UK, Companion Voices sings for people at the end of life, creating a gentle supportive soundscape. Founded by Judith Silver 12 years ago, more than a dozen groups now offer this voluntary service across England, with more planned.
Kay Ashton
Wallingford, Oxfordshire
• John Crace’s analysis of Keir Starmer’s hapless, hopeless Labour government (‘I thought the grownups were back in charge!’: John Crace on how Labour shattered his expectations, 19 November) was, as usual, witty and shrewd – apart from his observation that the government’s right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing. Actually, it’s worse than that: the right hand doesn’t even know what the right hand is doing.
Prof Chris Walsh
Hawarden, Flintshire
• Zoe Williams’ reflection on the naming of storms (I keep trying to name storms. Why does the Met Office turn down my suggestions?, 17 November) omits to mention that the BBC weather forecasters insisted on calling last weekend’s storm Storm Cloudier.
Judith Mack
Corby, Northamptonshire
• When I was a lad in Ashton-under-Lyne my dentist, a Mr Paine, lived at Tooth Acre (Letters, 17 November). Is this nominative determinism once removed?
Mike Dixon
Ilkley, West Yorkshire
• The family doctor for my 1962 exchange family in Charente, France, was Dr Jabalot.
Lawrence Hanlon
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
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