A plague on both house and garden | Brief letters

Daddy longlegs | Manifesto pledges | TV theme tunes | Weather forecastsI would like to assure James Vickers (Letters, 6 September) that the daddy longlegs population is thriving here on the Isle of Wight. So far this week, my dog has chased and eaten five of them. Helen Keats Shorwell, Isle of Wighto There may be a dearth of daddy longlegs in Yorkshire, but there is a plague of them in our house and garden in Dumfriesshire.Elizabeth CarruthersLockerbie, Dumfriesshire Continue reading...