A bridge too far for the renaming game? | Brief letters

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What? No teachers interviewed or photographed at the chalkface in praise of their efforts to keep schools running (Heroes of 2020, 22-31 December)? Rising levels of coronavirus among pupils put all teachers at risk. There is limited use of PPE and masks are not used in class. My son is one of those unsung and exposed heroes, with a wife who suffers from asthma.
Mary Hill
Ludlow, Shropshire

The body that draws up the honours list is refusing to remove the outmoded British Empire" designation from the system (New Year honours 2021: citizens awarded for response to pandemic crisis, 30 December). This reminds me of what the late, great Spike Milligan had to say on the subject: I can't see the sense of making me a Commander of the British Empire. They might as well make me a Commander of Milton Keynes. At least that exists."
Angus McGeoch
Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire