Tattoo tribute to my suffragette heroine

Commemorative tattoos | Fringe first | Bibby Stockholm | Sunak’s trousers

I’m sorry that only those between 18 and 30 have been invited to apply to take part in the tattooing of all the letters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, one letter at a time (Report, 6 August). A decade ago, in my late 60s, I got a tattoo on my wrist to commemorate my great-grandmother who was a suffragette, imprisoned in Holloway and awarded the Holloway brooch. My tattoo has the purple, white and green flashes of the brooch.
Sally Smith
Redruth, Corwall

• Natalie Haynes advises fringe performers not to read reviews (Some people just won’t like you, but don’t take it personally: what surviving the fringe taught me about life, 7 August). Many years ago at the fringe I took part in a hastily put together and under-rehearsed first production of a play by a then unknown playwright. Only after we’d read the reviews did we realise what a theatrical masterpiece we’d been performing.
Walter Merricks
Polonius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, 1966

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