I bought a pint of lager and a brandy in a hostelry in London’s King’s Cross area last week for what I thought was a very reasonable £10.60. It was not until I received the brandy that I was dismayed. The liquid therein barely covered the bottom of the glass. Further inquiry revealed the dispensed measure as 10ml. Is this the smallest retail measure in the UK and do the licensing authorities condone such Scrooge-like measures?
John Garforth
Addingham, West Yorkshire
• It was good to see that a statue in memory of the peace campaigner Brian Haw is to be installed facing the big guns in the Imperial War Museum (Statue of peace protester Brian Haw to be installed in south London, 26 May). Readers might like to know that another memorial to him exists in the form of a bench on Whitstable beach, the result of a campaign by my late friend Richard Stainton, a man who in his life and work also waged peace.
Graham Jameson
London
