Yet another report of the appalling state of much of the UK’s housing stock (Terminally ill man faces living last days in mould-ridden London flat, 23 November). After 13 years of austerity, this kind of situation is all too common. It’s time to call this what it is: slums rented out by slum landlords.
Dr Lorna Chessum
Brighton, East Sussex
• Your warning that the recipe in Feast should have said 300g not 300 coley fillets came too late for me (Corrections and clarifications, 24 November). But when I spotted the error, I went out and bought a few barley loaves, then invited the neighbourhood round for tea.
Alan Woodley
Northampton
• I don’t know what targets Southern Water must have set itself if it is managing to dump sewage into the sea for 40 hours every day (Raw sewage discharged into Chichester harbour for over 1,200 hours in a month, 23 November).
Dave Headey
Faringdon, Oxfordshire
• Levelling up is not entirely new (Letters, 23 November). More than a century ago, the MP Joseph Chamberlain said: “My aim in life is to make life pleasanter for the great majority; I do not care if it becomes in the process less pleasant for the well-to-do minority.”
David Redshaw
Saltdean, East Sussex
• Re the abuse of apostrophes (Letters, 26 November), a cafe’s board in Eastbourne states: “Our breakfast’s served all day.” The technically correct nature of this sign brings a smile to my face, and I’m glad to say that it does more than one breakfast – very good they are too.
Alan J Lazell
Eastbourne, East Sussex
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