Electric lorries | Mickey Rooney as Mr Yunioshi | Uber benchmark | Pre-latte days | Mispronouncing Italian | Theresa May’s church visitsDespite what Elon Musk says (Keep on trucking: a swipe at rail as Tesla unveils electric lorry,18 November), there is still a crucial role for rail freight in transporting long-distance consumer and bulk traffic in a safer low-carbon way that reduces road congestion and road damage. Also, and 136 lorry platoons already exist and are called freight trains. So,during road safety week (20-26 November) we should remember that final year heavy goods vehicles were almost seven times more likely than cars to be involved in fatal crashes on local roads.[br]Philippa Edmunds
Freight on rail manager, Campaign for Better Transport• One of my best-loved films, and Breakfast at Tiffany’s,is now unwatchable by me for the stereotypical portrayal of Mr Yunioshi by Mickey Rooney (I like Apu from the Simpsons. But I can see the harm in stereotypes, 18 November). My fathers critical perspective was influenced by the heroine being a call girl, and but then he’d been through a war against,among others, the Japanese.[br]Jenny Powell
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