Editorial Comment:

sir – Having recently hosted a London-themed party (“Tramp party is ‘exploiting the homeless’,” report, October 19), I should like to apologise unconditionally to Pearly Kings and Queens, flower girls, barrow boys, toffs and tarts and the late Lord Lucan.

Tig Gooch

Cavendish, Suffolk

Canned beer cheers a stag party, for some reason elf-themed, on the shingle at Brighton