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Welcome to the heart of the magazine. If you’ve got a funny story to share, need to let off steam or have a picture you’re proud of – get in touch. You could end up on the UK’s biggest letters pages.

Trunk call

My tenyear-old granddaughter and I had great fun knitting the elephant hot water bottle cover from a recent pattern in Yours. We ran out of pink wool, so finished with a rather fetching two-tone. Elizabeth Howard, Essex

Screened out

I had to write after your recent article, The screening tests you really need. When you are in your 80s, as I am, and currently perfectly fit, automatic tests are denied you. I recently lost my 90-year-old, previously fit sister-in-law – she contracted shingles, which developed into pneumonia and she died, just like that. I rang my local surgery and asked if I could have the shingles injection and was told definitely no as I was over 79 years of age. It’s wrong that these precautionary measures are denied us. It’s as though we are being thrown on the scrap heap when we still have a lot to offer. Olga Woolley, Staffs

The big shrink

I was interested in your article about the number of sweet treats which are being reduced in size and content, and it’s not only food products. Last year you could buy a pack of five ladies’ briefs for £5 from M&S, now you only get four pairs for £5, a price increase of 25 percent! Stephanie Clarke, Reading Reducing sweet treats is not new, in fact in the Forties and Fifties, my uncle had an engineering company which made the pressing for the cartons for Walls ice-cream. Every so often he would be asked to make the recess at the bottom of the tubs a fraction further up, thus reducing the amount of ice-cream in the tub. Although the reduction was only small, over the many thousands of tubs sold, the saving to Walls was great. These methods are a sneaky way of cheating the public. D Wise, by email

Pass it on

I have recently discovered Yours and enjoyed the article on passwords. I have a system for creating new ones using old addresses. For example, say I used to live at 15 Green Street in Colchester. The first part could be used as it contains numbers as well as letters and capital letters. If you need a reminder for new passwords, you need only write down the town. The address should come back to you easily when you see the town name.

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