A piercing flashback to The Body Shop | Brief letters

Anita Roddick’s Aladdin’s cave | Selling the nation | Trigger happy | Michael Jayston | Without meritI wanted to have my ears pierced. It was 1976, and a friend in Brighton, Stephanie, said I should come to this new shop in the North Laine there. My ears were pierced in the back of the shop, although not by Anita Roddick. The tiny shop was an Aladdin’s cave of small bottles and jars, all full of new smells and interesting possibilities. RIP The Body Shop (Zoe Williams