It is terrible that the youth crime emergency has arrived so suddenly and taken the government by complete surprise. If only some experts in the field, such as police officers, social workers, youth workers, teachers and so on could have warned them.
Louise Fleckney (former DCI)
Broughton, Northamptonshire
• I have just discarded a pair of trousers that were bought in 1967 (Slow fashion: how to keep clothes for ever, 1 August), at the start of a teacher training course, for a subject known as “movement”. Since then they have been worn for hundreds of miles of walks and thousands of miles of cycling. I have kept the label for posterity’s sake: “St Michael, Nylon S-T-R-E-T-C-H, warm wash, drip dry, warm iron” and perhaps the best bit (no ship miles) “Made in Great Britain”.
Phyll Hardie
Norwich
• Keith Flett (Letters, 1 August) has had a slight breakdown in his geography. He claims that Brecon is adjacent to Ambridge. As a member of the Ambridge Beard Liberation Front he should know that Ambridge is set in Worcestershire and that Herefordshire separates the two.
Martin Kirk
Withington, Herefordshire
• Cherry Weston (Letters, 30 July) refers to double spaces after full stops going out with manual typewriters. But surely Mr Rees-Mogg (or his secretary) still uses a typewriter?
Peter C Stone
Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
• In response to the request for quantifiable statistics on the numbers, types and travel arrangements of the nation’s moths (Letters, 30 July), I’ve currently got between 15 and 20, big ones, and they’re travelling by boat.
Ian Grieve
Gordon Bennett Esq, Shropshire Union canal
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