BBC plans to lighten up for poorer people are patronising

Why does the BBC think that poor people need less demanding fare (BBC to produce ‘lighter’ content to attract Britons from poorer backgrounds, 30 November)? There is something deeply and offensively patronising going on here.
Paul Garland
Saffron Walden, Essex

• Did anyone else notice that the clue and solution for 12 across in the prize crossword last Saturday were the same as those for 7 down in the quick crossword on the same day, the clue being just a bit more cryptic? Coincidence?
Val Dillon
Birmingham

• I don’t have any inclination to try a Greggs pasty (Letters, 25 November). But I would love to try Heather Strongman’s generations-old family recipe from Newlyn and St Just. Could you give her a guest spot in a future Feast?
Andrew Palmer
London

• Maybe we’re beginning to know what it feels like to be a colony rather than our more familiar role of colonisers (Revealed: more than 70% of English water industry is in foreign ownership, 30 November).
Sue Stephenson
Barrow upon Humber, Lincolnshire

• “The … Cor Burn, which runs from the River Tyne” (Fantasy house hunt, 25 November). It runs to the River Tyne, surely?
Jeff Lewis
Whitefield, Greater Manchester

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