Tut tut, John Beckett, for citing (Letters, August 5 ) Southwell as a town with a cathedral (it does not have one - it has a minster) and Nottingham as a city without a cathedral (it has one - the Roman Catholic St Barnabas').
Presumably this Beckett is not related to that other Becket of Canterbury, who knew his cathedrals only too well!
Andrew Slim, careers adviser, Nottingham Law School