Use crayfish to maintain Hampstead Heath swimmers at bay | Wildlife

I understand how to cease swimmers utilizing the wildlife ponds on Hampstead Heath (Report, 27 May). Erect an image of all the large crayfish – an invasive species – now inhabiting most of the ponds, notably the one pictured. I definitely wouldn’t need to be swimming with them snapping at my toes.
Emilia Benjamin
London

A cup remaining between golf equipment from London and Paris (Paris Saint-Germain retain Champions League as Arsenal dream dashed in shootout, 30 May) would certainly have been greatest performed in Belgium, near each groups? Granted, it will have been more durable to organise – and will have needed to be per week later – however the way forward for humankind shouldn’t be sacrificed to finals in faraway venues.
Dr Peter Emerson
Belfast

My late granduncle used to say of the nice groups: “You’d get up in the middle of the night to watch them.” That Arsenal staff? You’d go for a nap in the course of the day to keep away from watching them. Doctors would possibly begin prescribing Arsenal recordings to sufferers with insomnia.
Rob Sadlier
Dublin, Ireland

It appears the colonial attitudes seen in Brian Friel’s nice play Translations are alive and effectively in fashionable Britain. Last week, my sister was advised by the British Passport Office to alter her identify from the Greek spelling, Paraskou, to Paraskos if she desires a passport.
Dr Michael Paraskos
London

Jeff Warren (Letters, 31 May) says that in computing the 9 instances desk, “the answer always adds up to nine”. Eleven nines are 99.
Danny Tanzey
Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire