Fewer murders in Midsomer Norton | Brief letters

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Midsomer Norton, mentioned in your review of BBC One’s drama Shetland (G2, 14 February), is in North East Somerset (Jacob Rees-Mogg’s constituency). Its murder rate is in no way comparable to that of the fictional Shetland as your review suggests. That of the fictional county of Midsomer (located notionally somewhere between Hampshire and Berkshire but filmed around Oxfordshire) – 231 in 89 episodes – is perhaps comparable.
Ruth Eversley
Paulton, Somerset

• Why stop at driving gangs of students into the fields, like a re-enactment of Mao’s Cultural Revolution (Letters, 15 February)? Isn’t it about time all those eight-year-olds who don’t know their times tables (Report, 15 February) became productive members of society too?
Allison Neal
Abergavenny, Monmouthshire

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