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I’m not sure who Zainab Johnson’s been talking to, but she’ll have no problem finding vegan/plant-based food here in Edinburgh during the fringe (‘I spent a month sleeping in a cupboard’: comedians on the true cost of the Fringe, 27 July). We have thousands of restaurants, the vast majority offering plant-based alternatives.
Siobhan McGovern
Edinburgh

• I too expect Nigel Farage to be on Gardeners’ Question Time soon (Letters, 24 July). Not for any money-tree expertise, however, but because it seems to be the only BBC media platform to which he isn’t already given regular open access.
Mike Hine
Kingston upon Thames, London

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