Lord Hutton writes of the NHS health centres that have been built thanks to private finance (Letters, 23 November). In Didcot we’ve been waiting more than 10 years for the Great Western Park health centre. The return on investment required by the developer is greater than the NHS will reimburse. The local integrated care board fears that at that cost they’ll not get a GP practice to take on the health centre.
Cllr Sarah James
Vale of White Horse district council
Congratulations on the print-edition headline “Lights, Canberra, no action”, about England’s beaten cricketers not playing in the Australian capital (24 November). It reminded me of my all-time favourite in the Guardian when Zaheer Abbas began the county cricket season in 1981 by scoring 1,000 runs in one month: “Happy days Zaheer again”. Genius.
Mark Garrod
Potters Bar, Hertfordshire
Ed Miliband seems proud that the UK produces “just 1% of emissions” (Opinion, 23 November). Why? The UK’s population is 0.85%, ie less than 1% of the world’s population, so in the UK we are emitting more than the global average per person.
Ulla Wiberg
York
Oh dear, Quick Crossword setter (18 November). “Former soldiers”? Answer: “Ex-servicemen”. “Retired professor’s title”? Answer: “Emeritus”. There are also female ex-soldiers and ex-professors!
Carol Taylor
Darley Dale, Derbyshire
As a riff on dancing at home to de-stress (The one change that worked, 24 November), air guitar works a treat, too. I recommend the Ramones.
Norman Miller
Brighton