Wireless festival: plenty of atmosphere on the Finsbury Park fringe | Brief letters

Destitution in 1903 and now | Side-effects of festival | Cap on teachers' pay | Positive spin on Johanna Konta's win | Mince on toast | English strawberries Reading Frank Field's call for an action programme against destitution (Letters, 11 July) put me in mind of the experience of my own great-grandmother who, when widowed and left with three very young daughters in Birkenhead in 1903, was very much helped by handouts from Charles Thompson's Mission. Only a few days ago that very same Mission w...