Your article on the demolition of the Watford Gap service station (Watford Gap: M1 services that hosted Stones and Beatles faces demolition, 3 November) describes its cultural heritage and some of its famous customers. Its culinary delights, however, were succinctly summed up in the songwriter Roy Harper’s 1977 tribute, which contained the lyrics “Watford Gap, Watford Gap, plate of grease and a load of crap”.
Clive Sykes
London
• So Suella Braverman believes that victims of homelessness using tents are making a “lifestyle choice” (Report, 4 November). Some choice. All this at a time when the UK can ill afford anyone creating further division on the streets. Shameful.
Chris Hunton
London
• Regarding Sam Wollaston’s article about pest control (‘You go to a job and it’s absolutely alive with rats or bedbugs’: on the road with a pest controller, 2 November), in the 1970s I had bedbugs in my seaside flat in Brighton. I phoned the local council and a very helpful man soon arrived and fumigated everything. The bedbugs went and I didn’t have to pay a penny.
Jenny Moir
Chelmsford
• I must agree with your recent correspondent calling for a no-sex supplement (Letters, 3 November), whose sentiments will be shared by many, and not just in mid Wales. If I were to engage in as many concurrent, amorous adventures as featured recently, I would have no time or energy for your cryptic crossword.
John Hunter
Crewe, Cheshire
• Re the best sandwiches (Letters, 2 November), if you haven’t tried cold rice pudding and banana sandwiches, you haven’t lived.
David Rose
Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham
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