More than £240m spent on an arts venue (Aviva Studios opens in Manchester with Danny Boyle dance extravaganza, 18 October), while our village primary school (in Greater Manchester) cannot scrape together £12,000 to provide the services of an outside music service to give the kids the experience of playing musical instruments. The vision seems lost here. Lois Miles Broadbottom, Greater Manchester When our son, Huddersfield born and bred, was at Oxford he entertained us with an account of his conversation with a posh student. She asked him various questions, to each of which he replied, no doubt a little lugubriously, “aye”. After a string of ayes she was puzzled and asked “You what? You keep saying ‘I’ but not qualifying it!” “Aye,” he replied, “it’s what we say in Yorkshire for yes” (Letters, 18 October). Caroline Cole Huddersfield, West Yorkshire In answer to Kath Checkland’s question (Letters, 20 October), I think there are areas of the country where one’s “one” would rhyme with “gun” as opposed to “gone”. Mike Lowcock Sandbach, Cheshire Re your report (‘It’s the exclusivity’: the rise of London’s £1,000-plus a night super-luxe hotels, 20 October), please add this to your style guide: “‘very high net worth individuals’ is disparaged; prefer ‘rich bastards’”. Martin Constantinides Whiting Bay, Isle of Arran Supporting Israel’s action in Gaza, David Rose comments that “Sadly, Gaza is crowded” (Letters, 20 October). Perhaps he should ask himself why Gaza is crowded. Sue Ball Brighton