SIR – I object to homeowners being characterised as “clinging” to family-sized homes with “unused” bedrooms (“Where baby boomers are refusing to downsize – and fuelling a housing shortage”, Money, February 26). We live in a four-bedroom house, but the “extra” bedrooms are far from unused, since when our house was built in the 1970s no accommodation was made for a home office, or clothes storage, or really any kind of storage at all. We are not responsible for decades of government mismanagement
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SIR – Here in Freshwater on the Isle of Wight the vaccine rollout was going really well, but it had to stop because it had got ahead of other parts of the country and the Government would not supply more vaccine.
To use the kind of wartime analogy favoured by the Prime Minister, this is like travelling in a convoy: you move at the speed of the slowest ship.
I thought that avoiding this sort of situation would be one of the advantages of leaving the EU.
Jamie Sheldon
SIR – My 88-year-old father with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease has not yet had the vaccine, since his local surgery did not receive any until this week.