What evil plots is the snow hatching? | Brief letters
The special light in St Ives is not a media illusion (Letters, 15 December). The town is situated on a promontory with wide beaches on three sides. They are made of quartz-based sand, which reflects light particularly brilliantly, and which is found where granite rock has eroded. Such beaches are found elsewhere, for instance in Cornwall and parts of Scotland. Some of the Scottish colourists may have been familiar with similar beaches: perhaps an art expert could provide further illumination on this?
Dr Jacqui Stewart
Exeter
" I am impressed that Antoinette Sandbach MP feels she has to do the "right thing from time to time" (Dominic Grieve receives death threats after leading Tory rebellion, 15 December), making it clear what she thinks she is doing the rest of the time.
Ken Baldry
London