I really identify with Kojo Koram in his article about his beloved Southport (5 August). Now in my 80s, I too was born and brought up in the town. My soul was nurtured by its faded Victorian grandeur and its elegant Lord Street colonnades. Its tragedy is that it will now always be associated with the killing of those three little girls and the ensuing violence.
Catherine Cookson
Southport, Merseyside
• Ben Jennings’ cartoon on the plight of asylum seekers amid the riots (5 August) had me in tears. So often he manages to convey the important message in one picture.
Anne Birchall
Coventry
