I think I would live a long, happy and healthy life if I lived in a comfy warm home, surrounded by a retinue of workers who served me the choicest nutritious food, which enabled me to make love on the wing (Scientists target queen bees in search of secret to longer life, 7 April).
Sam White
Lewes, East Sussex
• It’s good to know that actors are actually encouraged to keep their fake wonky teeth and they are not filed away as the property of the studio (‘Jonah Hill keeps his teeth in a safe’: meet Hollywood’s top special-effects dentist, 7 April). Here in the UK, I met a fell runner who had trashed her hip and wanted to keep the knobbly part as a handle for a novelty walking stick. The surgeon refused. “But it’s mine, it was part of my body,” the runner said. “Not any more. It’s surgical waste and, by law, I have to send it for incineration.”
Margaret Squires
St Andrews, Fife
