Barbecues needn’t cost you a sausage | Brief letters

Simplicity over luxury | Sanctions on Iran | Strait answers | Charabanc comedy | Short yet Wapping A barbecue for £4,500 ( The rise of the luxury barbecue: the UK’s new outdoor cooking obsession, 19 June )? For years I have barbecued for family and friends using an upturned metal milk crate, a paving stone on top, four bricks and an old grill rack, with only the charcoal costing anything – and not a burnt sausage in sight. Maintenance free, it all stacks neatly behind the shed waiting for the next heatwave.