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Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Taking a breath to cure a hangover | Brief letters

Oxygen to the rescue | Train strain | Hands off our plants | The joy of children

Re your article on the effect of alcohol on the body (The truth about booze, 24 May), when I was in the RAF and woke up with a hangover I would go and sit in the cockpit of a Meteor jet and breathe the oxygen supply for five minutes. Worked wonders.
JD Nixon
Hookwood, Surrey

• Your report (Rail passengers in England could lose wifi access amid cost cuts, 22 May) describes a proposal that would have been rejected from The Thick of It as being too dumb to be credible. In a climate emergency, amid budgetary constraints, what should we do: invest in public transport and encourage its use, or disincentivise people from using trains further while continuing to subsidise road building and airport expansion?
Dave Hunter
Bristol

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