Telephone scams | Kander and Ebb | Clear Skies | Washing your handsYour article about scammers (How a phone call from ‘the bank’ cost an unsuspecting couple their life savings, 30 July) gave much good advice. However, when advising people to take a name and ring back it should have emphasised that they should use a different phone or leave it for a while before doing so. I write from bitter experience, having called back straight away not knowing the scammers were still on the line – even when I thought I was speaking to the police, having dialled 999.Aileen TaylorTrowbridge, Wiltshire• Alfred Hickling asks if anyone can recall Kander and Ebb’s “clunkers” such as Flora the Red Menace or The Rink (The World Goes Round review, 1 August). We here in Richmond certainly can. Both of these clever, socially aware musicals have had successful productions on the tiny stage of our wonderful Orange Tree theatre. Flora was such a success that it was revived at least once. As for The Rink, we have an abiding memory of an intricate dance routine by six actors on roller skates in a space about 15 feet square – and no crashes!Sylvia and Bernard MarderRichmond, London Continue reading…
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