Rapt by restoration and raptors’ return in Rochdale | Brief letters
While the interior of Rochdale’s town hall was being beautifully restored (The £20m renovation of Rochdale town hall – in pictures, 30 January), its resident pair of peregrine falcons were not forgotten. After waiting for two years during exterior work, with their nest site sheeted off, they have a nice new nest tray and the people of Rochdale will once again be able to follow their breeding cycle on the council’s website.
Judith Smith
Manchester Raptor Group
Your article on a reproduction of the Bayeux tapestry (29 January) should have mentioned the copy in Reading Museum, sewn by 35 women from Leek in the 19th century. It’s beautifully exhibited in the lovely town hall, with free entry. (Plus older Londoners can travel there on their Freedom Pass on the Elizabeth line.) A great day out.
Rosie Boughton
London
When even the Guardian describes the prospect of higher taxation to pay for better public services as a “raid”, the Tories truly have captured the narrative (Households in England face above-inflation £2bn council tax raid, 29 January).
John Hambley
Aldeburgh, Suffolk
If human wee can be litter (Wee won’t back down: English council stands by littering fines for wild peeing, 29 January), the same must apply to dog wee. So are people who let their dogs wee in public parks also littering?
Nick Cox
London
If there was no money left in 2010 when government debt was £890bn, how much money will be left in 2024, with debt at £2.6tn?
Tom Johnston
Wooler, Northumberland
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