Rugby faculty is just not in your checklist of impartial faculties that play the sport of rugby 5 (London Public Faculty college students practice to take part in non-public faculties in rugby 5, June 16). In fact, we play it – the sport was invented right here! That is the second world-famous group sport, which was created on the rugby faculty, the opposite – rugby in 1823; subsequent yr we are going to have fun its two hundredth anniversary.
Peter Inexperienced
Government director of the rugby faculty group
Your obituary about Jeff Fuller doesn’t match the pub he created. His pretentious quarrelsome grasp, sitting by the hearth and studying his newspaper, appeared to trigger unusual occasions – a pair of pheasants on the counter, an eared owl on a chair, an impromptu live performance of German walkers a cappella. I’ve by no means seen a rabbit liver cooked in Dubon on the menu. He can be unhappy.
Bernard Brown Sword
Valey Bridge, Derbyshire
As a retired college lecturer, I welcome your article (Women love onerous math, says the Commissioner for Kids in England on June 17), however it might be extra convincing if the accompanying determine had a mathematical equation reasonably than a chemical one.
Professor John Kilner
Yuell, Surrey
In early Might, we left Northampton in our slender boat, touring alongside the Nene River to Peterborough, then by means of mid-level navigation to Denver and up the Nice Oak River and its tributaries to the Eli. At every of the berths we heard no less than one cuckoo (Letters, June 14). Or perhaps he’s following us.
Mick Gerati
Slender boat Oleanna, river Kam