The prime minister's spokesperson tells us that spades are already in the ground (HS2 at risk of further cuts to route north of Birmingham amid budget squeeze, 14 September). I doubt this very much if the railway navvies had been building the line it would have been completed by now. Ian Ferguson Pickering, North Yorkshire
Tim Dowling's description of his cat's apparently murderous intent will have resonated in many cat-owning households (9 September). In our house, the cat is also known as the killer on the stairs (Try singing it to the tune of The Doors' Riders on the Storm.) Marilyn Rayner Great Ness, Shropshire
When I was trying to teach Canadian engineering students some conventions for writing emails (Yours sincerely' is dead. So how should you sign off an email?, 13 September), I suggested that they might like to sign off with very best wishes if they meant it, and with best wishes if they didn't. John Considine Sedbergh, Cumbria
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