A gleaming tribute to Mary Rand’s gold | Brief letters
Long-jump marker | Alan Bennett’s call-up | Light news | Lashings | Socialist sunshine
As a schoolboy, I was fascinated by coverage of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. A few years later, on a family holiday, we visited Wells Cathedral. Outside the grounds lay a gleaming brass strip in the pavement marking the distance that Mary Rand long-jumped to create her world record. A lovely tribute to this remarkable person (Mary Rand, first British woman to win Olympic athletics gold, dies aged 86, 27 March).
Anil Bhatt
Sunderland
• Your review of the fourth instalment of Alan Bennett’s diaries, Enough Said (24 March), says he nearly always notes the anniversary of the beginning of his national service: “8/8/52. The day I was called up. A Thursday.” Oh no it wasn’t – I was born that day and it was a Friday.
Ann Branson
Leicester