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SIR – I spent nearly 30 years at the BBC, mainly in an editorial role in the radio newsroom – which included the night we joined the Common Market – later on Today, Radio 1, Radio 4 and in news management. ....
John Minchillo / AP The Citizen Complaint Authority is recommending changes to Cincinnati Police policies related to mental illness. A new report from the independent oversight board shows the majority of people subject to a recent officer shooting were likely experiencing a mental health crisis. The CCA report covers all eight officer-involved shootings in 2018 and 2019. It recommends a new CPD policy requiring officers to check for a history of mental illness before executing a warrant. Executive Director Gabe Davis says that kind of check should have been done before officers went to arrest 20-year-old James Clay in 2018. Two officers shot and killed Clay after he pulled out a replica handgun. ....
Dr Graham Blackbourn Linlithgow, West Lothian SIR – There is a yawning gulf between an unsubstantiated allegation and a revelation supported by evidence. What the Duchess of Sussex, supported by the obedient Duke, uttered on a lawn in California was a litany of allegations without a shred of proof. How sad to see that two of your lady columnists chose to swallow them hook, line and sinker. Frederick Forsyth
SIR – Has thought been given to Archie and his little sister growing up without a relationship with any blood relatives apart from one grandmother? No cousins, aunts or uncles, grandparents or great-grandparents to share their lives with. ....
Don’t let Christmas tree needles go to waste Precious pines: a woman in Brighton carries her tree to a recycling centre Credit: simon dack/alamy SIR – Felicity Cloake says we should eat our Christmas trees rather than throwing them away. I would add that pine-needle culinary delights are best enjoyed while soaking extremities in a needle-infused footbath. Peter Saunders
SIR – On the question of when to take festive decorations down (Letters, December 30), many years ago, when my three sons were fairly young, we visited my house-proud mother-in-law on Boxing Day. Shortly after we had finished our turkey lunch, she took the lights and decorations off the artificial tree, and proceeded to fold it up and put it away, saying: “That’s Christmas over, then.” ....