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Your report (Campaigners seek listed status for historic trig points that mapped Britain, 16 April) didn\u2019t mention the Vanessa trig point \u2013 Vanessa being a corruption of the Venesta company, which made cardboard tubes into which the concrete for the pillars was poured. These were designed for less accessible places, mostly in the Scottish Highlands and Islands. I\u00a0was never less than half\u00a0exhausted when I met one. <\/p>\n The Guardian\u2019s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link.\u00a0Learn more.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Who knew Yes Minister was a documentary (Letters, 19 April)? My friend Graham Fortune did. He was a New Zealand public servant and diplomat. On their first day working for the public service, he would tell new recruits to watch the programme as an essential part\u00a0of their training. If my memory is correct, while I was serving in the Royal Navy in the 1960s, the sheets of Izal toilet paper (Letters, 17 April) provided had \u201cHM Government Only\u201d printed on them. I remember being\u00a0delighted at being to wipe my bum on the government. It was good to see a flyer for environmentally friendly loo roll falling out of my Guardian last Friday \u2013 only slightly undermined by there being three copies of it. There are 15,481 people for each public toilet in England (Report, 20\u00a0April)? With my prostate playing up these days, I just hope that they tolerate queue-jumpers. Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please <\/em><\/strong>email<\/em><\/strong> us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our <\/em><\/strong>letters<\/em><\/strong> section.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Your report (Campaigners seek listed status for historic trig points that mapped Britain, 16 April) didn\u2019t mention the Vanessa trig point \u2013 Vanessa being a corruption of the Venesta company, which made cardboard tubes into which the concrete for the pillars was poured. These were designed for less accessible places, mostly in the Scottish Highlands<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[534,4306,12885,16837,24291],"class_list":{"0":"post-48589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-community","9":"tag-heritage","10":"tag-hiking","11":"tag-pillar","12":"tag-vanessas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Margaret Squires<\/strong>
St Andrews, Fife<\/em><\/p>\n
Penelope Horner<\/strong>
Whitchurch, Hampshire<\/em><\/p>\n
Gareth Davies<\/strong>
Ellington, Northumberland<\/em><\/p>\n
Steven Burkeman<\/strong>
York<\/em><\/p>\n
Prof Gareth Williams<\/strong>
Rockhampton, Gloucestershire<\/em><\/p>\n