SIR – I’ve been asked to sign a petition to strip Paula Vennells, the former chief executive of the Post Office, of her CBE (report, January 6). What I fail to understand is why she was honoured in the first place. It must have been obvious that the Post Office’s handling of the Horizon scandal was grossly incompetent at the highest level. Max Cooke Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire
Sarah, the Duchess of York, had her O-level results unearthed today, when a slip detailing the outcome of the exams she took in June 1976 was found in a dusty filing cabinet.
The Prime Minister spent his teenage years at Winchester College in Hampshire, which for more than a century has required its pupils to carry out at least one year of military training.