When our neighbour’s car broke down in a rather terminal way recently, I offered him the use of ours (Letters, 9 June). We don’t use it very much and it seemed like a good idea all round – he doesn’t do many miles either, keeps it topped up with petrol and keeps it clean. He’s also a great baker, and I’m just about to cut myself a slice of the beetroot-bread loaf that he brought round last night, so it seems that everybody’s a winner.
Peter Hanson
Whitestone, Exeter
• I disagree with your view that Woking is probably most famous for being the inspiration for the Jam’s hit song Town Called Malice (‘Eye-watering’: how Woking council’s glittering dream turned to dust, 9 June). It’s clearly most famous for being completely destroyed in HG Wells’s novel The War of the Worlds. They even have a statue of a Martian tripod in Woking.
Katharina Fritsch
Brandenburg, Germany
