• VALE Alan Budd kind neighbour.

We had the good fortune to live next door to Alan and Susan Budd and their three boys in Laurier Road while our two boys were growing up.

I will never forget Alan’s kind offer to help James with a knotty maths problem which had me stumped – not what he really needed after a day of crunching numbers.

Condolences to his family.

C WELLS, N19