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At my local garage, three police officers were buying coffee recently. None wearing masks. Do police personnel routinely take lateral flow tests? Is it controversial to say that when people don't wear masks, other people unnecessarily get hospitalised and some die? Or to say that when people in authority don't wear masks, others think, Why should I?" Daily cases on Sunday: 40,004.
James Bance
Ruislip, London

Re the oldest Christmas puddings (Letters, 19 November), might I mention a visit to the Wagner museum in Lucerne, Switzerland. After gazing reverently at an unidentifiable black object, I found a label claiming: This bread roll was used at the first performance of Parsifal." Do not bring me your old puddings unless they are museum specimens.
Anne Cowper
Swansea