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Families in poverty face a real challenge

<span>A volunteer loads up a car at a food bank distribution hub.</span><span>Photograph: Getty</span>
A volunteer loads up a car at a food bank distribution hub.Photograph: Getty

It might be more illuminating if you feature three families for whom a day not spending anything is not a challenge (‘I must have saved at least £100!’, 2 July), but a necessity. There are plenty of them to choose from after 14 years of Tory austerity. Or get your three writers to exist for a week on items from their local food bank.
Martyn Taylor
London

• An example of Milliganesque behaviour (Letters, 2 July) is if a boy writes to you to ask for a singed photograph, and you burn the edges, sign it and send it back, apologising that it got accidentally signed.
Karl Sabbagh
Defford, Worcestershire

• The BBC theme “song” was not played at Glastonbury as your report claimed in the version in your print edition (3 July), because it’s not a song. There are no vocals.
Leila Roberts
Mickley, North Yorkshire

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• When will the men get a chance to comment on their tennis togs, please (Female tennis stars push boundaries with outfits at Wimbledon, 3 July)? It is, after all, the 21st century.
Jenny Welsh
London

• “Eco-warrior” equals “saboteur” (Quick crossword, 3 July)? Really? Who is compiling this stuff?
Ann Jay
Bangor Teifi, Ceredigion

• Perhaps, as a clue for “saboteur”, you could have had: “Person who recklessly trashes the economy in pursuit of a narrow political agenda.”
Linda Siegle
Ashburton, Devon

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