Honour a real hero

THERE is something wrong with the honours system when an actress is made a Dame while last surviving Dambuster George ‘Johnny’ Johnson gets only an MBE for his valour — and that award was only given after a petition asking for him to be recognised, preferably with a knighthood.

Mrs M. J. BOUTELL, St Leonards-on-Sea, E. Sussex. IT WAS great to see Julie Walters being made a Dame. As her character Mrs Overall of Acorn Antiques might say: tea and coconut macaroons all round! DIANE SILVA, Lytham St Annes, Lancs.