An unwelcome sign of spring in the air | Brief letters

Adult learning | Barbecues | Climate crisis | Boating advice | CodewordsYour editorial on adult education (21 March) rekindled memories of teaching evening classes as a lecturer for many years. It was a sheer joy to teach those students; we tended to learn from each other. A few of my ex-students became lecturers themselves. Dr Khosro S JahdiLeeds• Having been smoked all winter by neighbours’ woodburning stoves and bonfires, could I make a spring plea for weather forecasters to stop referring to “barbecue weather”? Thanks to neighbours’ barbecues, the atmosphere occasionally resembles that of a burning oil dump. There’s enough threat in the air we breathe without adding to it. Mike Peart Sheffield Continue reading...