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Plastic-eating enzymes | Class in the north | Brown cars | Spring politics | Female newsreaders | Comet ThatcherI hope the artificially created enzymes will begin to help clean up the exponential increase in plastic waste (Researchers make plastic-eating mutant enzyme better, 17 April). Maybe better not to let the cultivated variants out into the wild though – and on no account call themMutant 59...Dr Hilary GeeGrange over Sands, Cumbria• Maxine Peake claims “there is only one class in the north, and that’s working class” (Arts are still preserve of middle-class people, study concludes, 16 April). So who are all those people buying quinoa with bulgar wheat at Waitrose in Wilmslow?David HoultStockportContinue reading...
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