Queen Vic or Rovers Return? | Codpiece comeback | John Bercow | Ageing | A better new yearYour editorial on pubs (30 December) states that “today’s most famous pub is the
Queen Vic in EastEnders”. Why not the Rovers Return in Coronation Street? I am disappointed in the Guardian confirming my husband’s conviction of southern bias as I am going to have to agree with him from now on.Francesca WhittlestoneLiversedge, West Yorkshire
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• I hope John Bercow will regard his exclusion from this year’s honours list as a badge of honour – surely he would not wish to be on the same list as the architect of welfare reform so aptly depicted in your cartoon (Journal, 30 December).Christine StrachanWaterbeach, Cambridgeshire