No escaping the rise of the mobile phone mast
SIR – Dame Judi Dench is concerned that a phone mast at Zennor in Cornwall will disrupt the tranquillity of the area (report, April 15).
She is wrong. It is not the masts which disrupt the peace. It is the mobile phones – or, rather, their use. Chris James
Abergele, Denbighshire
SIR – I travelled last week on a commuter train from Segovia to Madrid. Mobile phones were banned throughout, except in the space between carriages. How refreshing: no posturing by self-important middle-managers; no vacuous blathering by the terminally garrulous; no coy flirtation between lovelorn adolescents. Silence prevailed.
Perhaps this is a lesson we could take with us from an enlightened Europe before Brexit. If we resume control of little else, at least we could reclaim our railway carriages. Bill Gunn
Woolhope, Herefordshire