Letters: Bus music fines and poppy rules, plus a look back at 2017

PICTURE FROM THE ARCHIVE: Armani Leroy, who is described as a ‘wellbeing ambassador’, leads motorists in Wing Ysun, Chinese martial arts exercises, to help lower stress and heart rate. It was set up to launch a new Loen restaurant at Roadchefs Norton Canes service area on the M6 Toll in 2017. | ©PA

placeholder image — PICTURE FROM THE ARCHIVE: Armani Leroy, who is described as a ‘wellbeing ambassador’, leads motorists in Wing Ysun, Chinese martial arts exercises, to help lower stress and heart rate. It was set up to launch a new Loen restaurant at Roadchefs Norton Canes service area on the M6 Toll in 2017. | ©PA

Readers share their views on Labour’s proposed bus music policy, the value of traditional letters and the correct way to wear a Remembrance poppy

Music policy is for the fairies

As ever with Labour, one for the fairies.

I really feel like ringing the neck of those lovely people on the bus who either feel that you want to hear their so called music (rap) emanating from their mobile phone or think you need to hear their inane chat delivered at peak decibels; "Yes it's raining here as well".

However, the thought these numpties are about to be fined is pretty laughable. One might ask, who is going to deliver the punishment? Does the driver make an emergency stop, exit the cab and demand payment? Will there be citizen arrests and miscreants being frog marched to the nearest hole in the wall?

As ever with these idiots in Westminster, the result of a policy is never worked through but yes it sounds great and I daresay Labour flag wavers will be ecstatic.

Alan M Etheridge, Midlands

My message is on real paper

I don't post. I have an account the way you might keep a coat you never wear. It's there. It's mine. But I don't put anything in it.

My kids asked me why I don't have any photos online. I told them some things are better kept in a pocket than pinned to a wall. They didn't understand. They will one day.

I remember when love was a letter you waited for. A real envelope. A real stamp. A hand you knew before you opened it. You carried it in your jacket all day just to feel the weight of it. Then you read it at night when the house went quiet, and it was like the person was still in the room with you.

Now we send each other things that vanish. A message appears, you read it, reply, and it's gone. Like it never happened. Like the person never happened. We call it connection, but it feels more like weather: something that passes through and leaves you standing in the same place.

I want to give my kids something better than what I've got. Not a perfect life. Just one where love isn't something you scroll past.

Name and address supplied

Proper way to wear a poppy

Please could we remind (in some cases teach) people that there is a correct way to wear one's poppy?

The leaf should always point to the 11 position.

It is a symbol of the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month.

Peter Vessey, Midlands

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