IT’S NOT A LATTE FUN

# So, coffee helps us live longer (Mirror, July 11). How many times have we been told something is good for us, only to be told later it isn’t?

My grandfather – who had a fry-up every day, insisted on roast beef and Yorkshire pudding on Sundays, snacked on bread and dripping with lots of salt, who enjoyed more than his fair share of alcohol, who smoked, but never drank coffee in his life – lived to 95.

When he was told alcohol was bad for him, he said: “If you give up everything you enjoy, you don’t live longer – it just seems like you do!” John Hudson, Derby

# Thank goodness Donald Trump won’t be visiting the UK until 2018. With any luck Theresa May, who has disgracefully pandered to him at every opportunity, will be long gone by then. Corbyn will win the next election by a landslide and should ban Trump from ever visiting us. Steven McNamara, Middlesbrough

# If parents want to take their children on holiday during term time, they get opposition and even fines. But schools around Wimbledon permit kids to become ball boys and girls for two weeks every year. Why is this allowed? Sandra Perry, Stonehouse, Gloucs

# So, experts will soon be able to predict weather for each street (Mirror, July 1). They can’t even predict weather for one particular area yet, so one thing at a time! Sally Hewlett-Parker, South West London