Re Roger Whittaker (Obituary, 20 September), is there any record of how the miners in north-east England’s working men’s clubs – where he plied his early trade – reacted to his implicit relocating of Durham to the banks of the Tyne in his hit song Durham Town (the Leavin’)? The city of Durham is on the River Wear, by the way.
Pete Lawson
Sunderland
• Speaking at the top of the Shard on 29 December 2049, the prime minister said: “My government is committed to achieving net zero, but with the current heatwave, and with London under several metres of seawater, this is not to the time to take measures that might upset our surviving voters” (Rishi Sunak announces U-turn on key green targets, 20 September).
Dave Dalton
Oxford
