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'Flying to save the planet? Reader slams climate summit' - Your Letters and the female hands that helped win the war in a Picture from the Past

One reader sees hot air, not climate action, missing Englishness, and the BBC v Trump - let's take a look at your letters...

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PICTURE FROM THE PAST: Members of the Women’s Land Army hard at work on the Staffordshire-Shropshire border. The three women were carrying hay above their heads, using a fork to secure the hay. The Land Army was a vital part of the war effort and thousands worked around the Midlands

Cop 30 is just a hollow charade

I see that the great and the good are assembling for COP 30. This ridiculous charade continues in of all places Brazil, a country destroying the rain forest on an industrial scale and aiming to be the fourth largest producer of fossil fuels. Further more, the mega producers of carbon eg USA and China are not attending. UK of course with our meagre per cent emissions is there in great force. Flying these people in for their regular jollies in fact creates tons of carbon. Truly, a risible and costly exercise if ever there was one!

Alan M Etheridge, Sedgley

I miss tweedy Englishness

The Movement (to be song to the tune of The Red Flag)

Oh Englishness oh Englishness, I miss that tweedy Englishness.

Those Oxford bags and beer and fags, please don’t tell me that it’s finished.

Short back and sides, hair over eyes, those plummy voices now despised.

Oh Englishness oh Englishness, I miss that tweedy Englishness