When, if ever, can we expect to see the Guardian letters page replete with protests about the mass slaughter of innocent civilians in Syria (‘This is a catastrophe’, 21 February) and calls for sanctions against, and boycotts of, the perpetrators? Or is readers’ indignation confined to other states in the region?

Jeremy Beecham

Labour, House of Lords

• Halifax’s live music scene (Letters, 21 February) also includes the seven chamber concerts organised by the Halifax Philharmonic Club every year in the Square Chapel auditorium. The national and international artists who perform there love the fine acoustic of this beautiful hall, and so do their audiences – and at a fraction of the cost of London prices!

Christine Stead

Secretary, Halifax Philharmonic Club

• By 1971, students at the University of York could be prescribed the pill if they said they were in a long-standing relationship (Letters, 17 February). It is possible that some of them lied.

Ruth Eversley

Paulton, Somerset

• Peppa Pig’s family have both eyes on the same side of the snout (Letters, 21 February)? Drawn by Pigasso?

Robert Charlesworth

Honley, West Yorkshire

• In West Yorkshire it wasn’t Sunwad (Letters, 21 February) but Sunwac: Swale, Ure, Nidd, Wharfe, Aire and Calder. Easily recalled as “Sheffield United never win at Chelsea”.

Steve Kibble

Rudyard, Staffordshire

• We were taught Swale, Ure, Nidd, Wharfe, Aire, Calder, Don.

Mary Barber

Huddersfield, West Yorkshire

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