I was impressed by your article on ways to travel more cheaply by train (Get a railcard and ditch season tickets: how to beat the rail fare rises, 16 March). However, readers may be interested to know that most annual railcards can be purchased online using vouchers from supermarket loyalty schemes. We have not paid a penny for railcards in more than 10 years, simply by trading in Tesco Clubcard vouchers. Using the loyalty scheme saves us £90 a year before we’ve even left the house.
Katie Croft
York
“I don’t think we have 53 idiots in the party,” says a former minister in your report (Hester row and Anderson defection have left Sunak weaker than ever, 17 March). I wholeheartedly agree. Judging by the standards and conduct of many ministers, I’m sure the figure is much higher.
Rick Kempster
Waterlooville, Hampshire
Re the letters on music in hospitals (17 March), while undergoing a scan a few years ago, I was asked what music I’d like to drown out the noise. I didn’t mind, until I heard Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart.
Christine Walters
Buxton, Derbyshire
The background tune to an eye injection I once had at Moorfields in London was Can’t Take My Eyes Off You.
Patrick Sheehy
Blackheath, London
My wife gave birth to our first son to the sound of REM’s Everybody Hurts. She had a caesarean.
James Cassidy
Norwich
