21 MAY 1988, Page 28

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Sir: I was interested to read ('A level best', 19 March) that Mrs Margaret Thatcher is now Grantham Grammar School's most famous pupil. One wonders if the suppres- sion of the one-pound note was the final calculated blow in her usurpation of this illustrious title from Sir Isaac Newton. T.J. Seccombe

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