Your article about scammers (How a phone call from ‘the bank’ cost an unsuspecting couple their life savings, 30 July) gave much good advice. However, when advising people to take a name and ring back it should have emphasised that they should use a different phone or leave it for a while before doing so. I write from bitter experience, having called back straight away not knowing the scammers were still on the line – even when I thought I was speaking to the police, having dialled 999.
Aileen Taylor
Trowbridge, Wiltshire
• Alfred Hickling asks if anyone can recall Kander and Ebb’s “clunkers” such as Flora the Red Menace or The Rink (The World Goes Round review, 1 August). We here in Richmond certainly can. Both of these clever, socially aware musicals have had successful productions on the tiny stage of our wonderful Orange Tree theatre. Flora was such a success that it was revived at least once. As for The Rink, we have an abiding memory of an intricate dance routine by six actors on roller skates in a space about 15 feet square – and no crashes!
Sylvia and Bernard Marder
Richmond, London
• Michael Carley of the University of Bath (Letters, 29 July) claimed that our skies haven’t been clear of aircraft for 200 years. Aeroplanes were invented in the early 20th century. Before then there were hot-air balloons, but how many? Were they regularly floating over the Yorkshire moors, Snowdonia, the Lake District, Cornwall, Devon or Scotland? I would hazard a guess that most people had never seen any form of aviation until the 20th century.
Caroline Compton
Oxford
• At my gym, there’s a sign on the door leading out of the toilets that says “Now wash your hands” (Letters, 2 August). So I go back to do it again. I’m sending this letter from my smartphone while trapped in a cycle of hygiene. Please rescue me.
Roy Kettle
Hitchin, Hertfordshire
• Back in the glory days of Bronco toilet paper, in the lavatories of some public buildings, each crackly, non-absorbent sheet bore the message “Now wash your hands”. Probably not an option with today’s softer loo paper.
Margaret Waddy
Cambridge
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