Stand at the Proms rather than Oasis

To those who balk at paying £361 for a standing ticket to see Oasis next July (A supersonic swindle: my £1,423 Oasis Ticketmaster hell, 1 September), may I recommend that they go to the BBC Proms instead? On any night from mid-July to mid-September, for £8, they can stand in the arena of the Royal Albert Hall in London and hear fabulous performances by some of the world’s greatest musicians. It’s cheaper, more available and far less elitist.John PickardBristol
How curious that while the Labour MP Jas Athwal is unaware of the terrible conditions his tenants are living in (Labour MP accused of renting out ant-infested flats with black mould, 30 August), he’s sufficiently on top of the situation to be able to deny that any tenant had been threatened with eviction. Tony GreenIpswich
Joan Lewis (Letters, 30 August) asks whether we older travellers can be trusted to cope on holiday. Since I retired 21 years ago, I have needed emergency treatment at hospitals in France, Spain (twice), Crete and Hong Kong. My longsuffering husband now refuses to travel with me unless we have full travel insurance cover. Our forthcoming two weeks in Spain will cost an extra £800, but the alternative is to stay home. I’m only 81 – so no thanks! Judi FendleyNew Malden, London
In a 45-year technical career, I never used the formula we learned by rote to solve quadratic equations (Letters, 28 August). However, in retirement, I find it a useful test of my fellow retirees’ mental faculties after a few glasses of wine.Bill KingdomOxford