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The Woman in Cabin 10, in which Keira Knightley stars as a Guardian journalist (Report, 10 October), was co-scripted by Joe Shrapnel, grandson of Norman Shrapnel, the legendary Guardian reporter, parliamentary sketch writer and theatre critic. When Norman died in 2004, my father, WL Webb, who as the paper’s literary editor regularly employed Shrapnel as a fiction reviewer, described how his “ironic edge and sharp eye for social detail made him the much-imitated master of a whole generation of Guardian writers”.
Kate Webb
London
• The government plans to require migrants coming to the UK to learn English to an A-level standard (Politics live with Andrew Sparrow, 14 October). How many current UK residents can demonstrate this level?
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