I understand from your report (20 August) that a YouGov poll as to whether or not the Sussex family should return to the UK offered the options “yes”, “no”, and “don’t know”, which were chosen by 21%, 33% and 45%, respectively. Would there have been the same outcome with the addition of the option “don’t care”?
Anne Cowper
Bishopston, Swansea
• I didn’t change my name when I married, but my brother’s wife did, so we enjoy confusing bureaucracy by both being Catherine M Bracey (Letters, 21 August). No problem for friends and family – I’m Cat, she’s Cathy. Problem is, my husband’s called Huw and hers Hugh.
Cat Bracey
Bristol
• In every room in parliament, beside the fire safety notices, should be an additional warning: “Because you are an MP, you will be offered gifts. And because you are an MP, you must decline them” (MPs ‘failing to learn lesson’ over freebies after accepting £400,000 of hospitality, 21 August).
Patricia Baker-Cassidy
Oxford
• Doug Kessler writes about the bafflingly hard pain parents feel when their children leave for university (Letters, 21 August). As the mother of four young adults still residing at home, I’m more familiar with the bafflingly hard pain when they don’t leave for university.
Rowan Haynes
Thringstone, Leicestershire
• I must protest at your half-finished limerick “There once was a man from Wirral / Who woke up in bed with a squirrel…” (Pass notes, 19 August). It’s “the Wirral”.
Heather Royles
Hitchin, Hertfordshire
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