The Waitrose test
Sir: Like Rod Liddle, I live in the north-east of England — a little further north and nearer to Sunderland (‘Keeping up appearances’, 27 November). The area is not particularly affluent and we do not have a Waitrose.
For the first 30 years of my life there was an enormous slag heap in the area: a legacy of our coal-mining era and an eyesore.

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