QUESTIONS

Q: Nick Clegg helped to push through the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, but now wants an early general election. In what circumstances can a general election be held before the end of the five-year term? trevor Dayneswood, slinfold, West sussex. Q: Further to the answer about magicians on the radio, didn’t a ventriloquist once have his own radio show? Mrs F. Vernon, Winsham, somerset. Q: In 1940 the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Irving Langmuir, proposed the idea of a 5,000 mph rocket-assisted pneumatic railway from New York to San Francisco. What became of his idea? Harold Varnam, Leicester.