• LEST your readers are left by Peeps (March 7) with the impression that hitherto the position of Labour chair in the constituency which contains Hampstead has been a female-free zone, previous chairs in its earlier manifestations – Hampstead and Hamp­stead and Highgate – have included Sandy Wynn, Enyd Norman, Nova Gresham/Websdale and Janet Guthrie.

JILL HOOD
Sumatra Road, NW6