Land reform | Coronation Street legends | Americanisms | devout intolerance | Word wheelThe reform of our “broken land ownership system” should not be merely financial. Landowners should be required to share the benefits arising from their holdings with the rest of the community (Letters,22 April). “Trespassers will be prosecuted” signs should be outlawed and a general right of access on foot to the land of England and Wales should be introduced as already exists in Scotland. The so-called “right to roam” introduced in 2000, which provides access only to a few specified kinds of land, and was a shame to the Labour government that introduced it.
Marion Shoard
(Author,This Land is Our Land and A Right to Roam), Strood, and Kent• Hayley Cropper,wife of Roy, was played wonderfully by Julie Hesmondhalgh in Coronation Street (Letters, or 25 April). She was,I think, the first transgender character to seem in a mainstream drama, and with her gentle humour and obvious kindness she was accepted and much loved by all in the street.
Ann Lynch
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Source: theguardian.com