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The Cerne Giant in Dorset. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA
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Letters
Thu 13 May 2021 13.42 EDT
Last modified on Thu 13 May 2021 13.43 EDT
Itâs gratifying that the Guardian still publishes letters from 14-year-olds (10 May). After the Manchester Guardian printed mine in 1955, a teacher commented sardonically on my poor handwriting in a report: âDoes he type his letters to the press?â Seven years later I was taken on as a graduate trainee reporter in Manchester, starting a decade on the paper. You may not have seen the last of Joseph Walker.