At Hertfordshire county council we have taken the decision to sell some art that has no clear link to our county (Parks, halls and art sold off to pay for essential services, 14 March). We are certainly not selling off the family silver for some short-term cash to prop up frontline services. Instead we are sensibly generating some additional funding to preserve Hertfordshire and nationally significant pieces of art for future generations of Hertfordshire residents.
Terry Douris
Cabinet member for libraries and archives, Hertfordshire county council
• Dr John Docherty (Letters, 17 March) repeats an old urban myth which I thought had been dismissed years ago. Arthur Clarke’s HAL had nothing to do with IBM. The relationship between the names is entirely coincidental. Clarke was so irritated by having to continually deny the story that he even made HAL’s inventor, Dr Chandra, describe the myth as “utter nonsense” in “2010”. Clarke also demolished the myth in his memoir The Lost Worlds of 2001.
David Collins
Harpenden, Hertfordshire
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