I really identify with Kojo Koram in his article about his beloved Southport (5 August). Now in my 80s, I too was born and brought up in the town. My soul was nurtured by its faded Victorian grandeur and its elegant Lord Street colonnades. Its tragedy is that it will now always be associated with the killing of those three little girls and the ensuing violence. Catherine Cookson Southport, Merseyside Ben Jennings’ cartoon on the plight of asylum seekers amid the riots (5 August) had me in tears. So often he manages to convey the important message in one picture. Anne Birchall Coventry Growing up in the Yorkshire coalfields, I recall a landscape dotted with mines, slagheaps and power stations. I don’t recall any campaigns against our pylons sending energy to the green and pleasant lands of southern England (Letters, 5 August). Mike Battye Oxton, Merseyside I read that 15 August is to be International Apostrophe Day (Report, 2 August). If it really is to be their day, should it not be International Apostrophes’ Day? Chris Chambers Oakham, Rutland “Residents’ refuse to be put in the bin” has an entirely different meaning without the apostrophe. Gillian Bassett Great Barford, Bedfordshire