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Your support makes all the difference.You make the usual error with Spanish surnames ("Euro-MP hints at end to beef ban", 29 June). Spaniards have two surnames; the first is the name of their father, the second their mother and sometimes the second surname may be dropped. Thus the Euro MP Manuel Medina Ortega may be called Mr Medina Ortega or Mr Medina but never Mr Ortega. Although still unequal, women in Spain do get to keep their own family surname after marriage and pass it on to their children.
David Salisbury
St Albans, Hertfordshire
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