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Garry Trudeau | Meeting the PM | Nasa photographs | Arlene Foster | Blackbird song Nasa’s Ingenuity helicopter during rotorcraft’s second experimental test flight on Mars. Photograph: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/EPA Nasa’s Ingenuity helicopter during rotorcraft’s second experimental test flight on Mars. Photograph: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/EPA Letters Thu 29 Apr 2021 13.27 EDT Last modified on Fri 30 Apr 2021 00.38 EDT Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury may be tame by comparison with If… (Letters, 27 April), but during the Aids disaster in the 1980s, Trudeau gave us the death of Andy Lippincott while listening to Pet Sounds on CD (the track was Wouldn’t it be Nice). This is the only time I have cried at the death of a cartoon character. ....
Letters Severn Bridge and Bob Dylan | Where are the redwings? | Food scarcity | Julia Donaldson | Astrology | No more Vic Marks Bob Dylan in 1966. Reader John Kirkwood suggests naming the Severn Bridge after the singer. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock Bob Dylan in 1966. Reader John Kirkwood suggests naming the Severn Bridge after the singer. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock Thu 24 Dec 2020 12.29 EST Last modified on Fri 25 Dec 2020 10.29 EST The Severn Bridge (Local politicians row over renaming of Severn Bridge, 22 December) replaced the Aust Ferry in 1966. As Bob Dylan was one of the last people to make the crossing – the No Direction Home album cover shows him standing near the ticket office – why not rename the bridge after Dylan? ....