Don’t fly, take the train … if it’s running

I enjoyed the contrast between these two articles (London City airport: 54% of journeys take under six hours by train, data shows, 17 August; Aslef train drivers announce 22 days of strike action on east coast mainline, 16 August). Since both providers serve Edinburgh, I question how easy those train journeys would be.
Isobel Edwards
London

• Will noise pollution be taken into account in the trials of drones being used to deliver packages (Clear for takeoff? Amazon gets green light to test-fly delivery drones in UK, 15 August)? The prospect of hundreds of drones buzzing around rural areas, where the noise could be heard far and wide, is horrifying.
Pamela Guyatt
Lamerton, Devon

• Accent snobbery in the NHS is not a thing of the past (Letters, 15 August). A couple of years ago, I was having a health checkup. The staff member going through a lifestyle checklist with me said: “I’ve already ticked ‘yes’ to the question on whether you drink alcohol – I can tell by your [Scottish] accent that you’re a drinker.”
Jim Love
Whittington, Staffordshire

• How refreshing to read: “We governed badly, we hadn’t done what we told people we would do. We put up taxes when we said that we wouldn’t, we hadn’t dealt with migration, and we hadn’t governed well” (Jacob Rees-Mogg ‘very strongly’ considering standing for election again, 18 August). Looks like the perfect opening for the next Tory party manifesto.
Paresh Motla
Thame, Oxfordshire

• I have often wondered if those who run the Daily Mail’s printing machines suffer from “ethical regret” (Letters, 18 August).
Peter Stewart
London

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