Straight to the POINT

÷ THE leader of the House of Lords says its numbers should be cut by 200. Wrong: its numbers should be cut to 200. DONALD J. POCKAYNE, Matlock, Derbys. ÷ ALTHOUGH not a fan, I was rooting for Leicester to stay up in the Premier League: now I really hope they get relegated. PHIL NORTH, Brigg, N. Lincs. ÷ BARCLAYS BANK sent me a letter thanking me for sending them our change of address — and sent it to our old address! KEN ADAMS, Poole, Dorset. ÷ HOW does ‘jobless yob’ Trevor Timon, who killed a man with a single punch, manage to afford £175 worth of champagne at a nightclub? Perhaps the Met Police should look into some of his other interests? Name and address supplied. ÷ AS BEVERLEY DORAN could afford to buy £2.50 Lottery tickets out of her £400 weekly benefit (Mail), will she now be using some of her £14.5 million win to pay it back? A. BARKER, Morley, Derbys. ÷ GRASMERE Island, now donated to the National Trust (Mail), isn’t on ‘Lake Grasmere’. Bassenthwaite is the only lake in the Lake District. The rest are meres, waters and tarns. ALLAN STEVENSON, Birkdale, Lancs. ÷ IT’S outrageous that murderer Ian Stewart ‘chose not to attend his sentencing’ (Mail). He should have been taken, by force if necessary, to appear in court. PETER GILES, Orpington, Kent.