Straight to the POINT

÷ THE DVLA asks for your gender when issuing a driving licence (Mail) because this is indicated in the driver number. The second digit is 0 or 1 for males and 5 or 6 for females. COLIN MacDONALD, Bottesford, Notts. ÷ THE Budget ‘forecasts’ for the economy are no better than weather forecasts. BRIAN BEST, Hazlemere, Bucks. ÷ THOSE frozen-position users of the drug Spice (Mail) may be mistaken for ‘living statues’ and given a few coins. Well-meaning passers-by may help by spraying them silver. F. HARVEY, Bristol. ÷ I WAS a survivor when HMS Warwick was torpedoed in February 1944. I suppose I should have suffered PTSD but it wasn’t invented then. KEN HOLMES, address supplied. ÷ IN TODAY’S PC climate, Sir Sydney Chapman shouldn’t be Person Sydney Person person (Letters) but Perchild Sydney Per child per child, surely. JOHN FREEMAN, Eaton, Cheshire. ÷ PHILIP HAMMOND is criticised for breaking election promises, Donald Trump is criticised for keeping his. MIKE JONES, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire. ÷ I’VE just seen a clock advertised as accurate to one second in 138 million years. Shouldn’t it say ‘or when the battery runs out’? DEREK EDGE, Macclesfield, Cheshire. ÷ MANCHESTER to Liverpool in seven minutes by Maglev train (Mail). Is HS2 out of date now?

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