Re the recent coverage of the Princess of Wales (too numerous to list), may I say, on behalf of many readers, that a period of silence from you on this would now be most welcome (Catherine, Princess of Wales, receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer, 22 March)?
James Churchill
Baslow, Derbyshire
• Prof Regan admits to his family eating “ice-cream” all year round (Letters, 21 March). Well, here in West Yorkshire, one of the first signs of spring is the sound of the Dixon’s ice-cream van’s familiar chimes. Now that is ice-cream, made fresh, straight from the cow.
Dr Mark Wilcox
Holmfirth, West Yorkshire