What, no Hayley Cropper in the Corrie screen queens list?

The reform of our “broken land ownership system” should not be merely financial. Landowners should be required to share the benefits arising from their holdings with the rest of the community (Letters, 22 April). “Trespassers will be prosecuted” signs should be outlawed and a general right of access on foot to the land of England and Wales should be introduced as already exists in Scotland. The so-called “right to roam” introduced in 2000, which provides access only to a few specified kinds of land, was a disgrace to the Labour government that introduced it.
Marion Shoard
(Author, This Land is Our Land and A Right to Roam), Strood, Kent

• Hayley Cropper, wife of Roy, was played wonderfully by Julie Hesmondhalgh in Coronation Street (Letters, 25 April). She was, I think, the first transgender character to appear in a mainstream drama, and with her gentle humour and obvious kindness she was accepted and much loved by all in the street.
Ann Lynch
Skipton, North Yorkshire

• Rebecca Nicholson’s piece on the BBC’s At the Edge of Life (G2, 24 April) was clear and insightful, but she has fallen into the American habit of calling operations by the clumsy euphemism “surgeries”, a term you will not hear in the NHS. The single word “surgery” is fine, but “surgeries” are what GPs or MPs hold, not the plural for operations.
Alex Hough
Eastbourne, East Sussex

• Rupert Gethin (Letters, 25 April) is right: we could learn a lot about religious tolerance from ancient India. What a pity that the subcontinent today (India itself, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar) has so little to teach us.
Andrew Anderson
Edinburgh

• Regarding your Word wheel (G2, 24 April) with no central letter, I thought the missing letter was F, thus making DRAGONFLY. So I claim the prize!
Linda Collier
Ongar, Essex

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