Letters

The writer tells how the president of the old Soviet Union Leonid Brezhev had just died, milk was 20p per pint, bread around 30p, and beer was 60p per pint.

Richard Lord was stunned to see a message in a glass bottle which appeared to have survived an epic journey across the Atlantic.

Lewis and Michael began writing to each other in March when pupils at Garras School near Helston began writing to a care home near them.