So very cross, the Mersey residents, when Birkenhead is wiped off map | Brief letters
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In his 1980s Guardian series Fourth Division England, Matthew Engel alluded to a "conspiracy to pretend that Birkenhead does not exist". More than 30 years on, and eight weeks after the town's football club's return to the fourth division, the Guardian is complicit in claiming the Birkenhead-launched RRS Sir David Attenborough would "make its debut in Liverpool" ('Boaty McBoatface' makes Mersey debut, 14 July).
Bill McGinley
Chester