Con or cop, they’re all in the same boat | Brief letters
Your front-page article on magistrates' courts (28 January) applies to England and Wales. However, the Scottish sheriff's courts have suffered similar cuts. With the closure of the sheriff's court in Rothesay, the participants in any case have to travel to Greenock by ferry. So you have police, lawyers, defendants and witnesses travelling together, a perfect opportunity for trouble.
Matthew Williamson
Rothesay, Isle of Bute
" It would surely have been appropriate, given that your article on Rachel Whiteread (26 January) was published on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day, to mention her remarkable Holocaust memorial sculpture, the Nameless Library, which has stood for nearly two decades in Vienna's Judenplatz.
Dr Anne Summers
Honorary research fellow, Birkbeck, University of London