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Re your article (Food bank users declining potatoes as cooking costs too high, says Iceland boss, 23 March), local authorities should provide a microwave for people in receipt of help from food banks. A few minutes in a microwave is long enough to cook most vegetables, and retains the goodness that is leached out in a pot of boiling water.
Teresa Holland
Chesterfield, Derbyshire

It would have been helpful if Larry Elliott's analysis (24 March) of the changes to average earnings since 1990 had included figures for MPs' salaries and the remuneration of FTSE 100 chief executives. That might give a better picture of where the money's going.
Jem Moore
Timsbury, Somerset