Straight to the POINT

ON A salary of £75,000 (Mail), train drivers seem to earn an awful lot of money. Let’s face it, they don’t even have to steer the train. HOWARD THOMAS, Reading, Berks.

WHY was the Duchess of Cambridge dressed as a pink blancmange at Trooping The Colour? H. PENNEY, Longborough, Glos.

WHERE is the supposed glut of delicious strawberries (Mail)? My local supermarkets sells only inedible pale, under-ripe berries. P. WILSON, Chester.

IF SUE PERKINS and Mel Giedroyc are to be rewarded for not following The Great British Bake Off to Channel 4, does this mean the terrible duo will be presenting every show on the BBC? CHERRY WILDE, Hucknall, Notts.

TOM UTLEY, who is fed up with his pampered, Corbyn-voting sons (Mail), should send them on a fact-finding mission to Venezuela. ELIZABETH COLE, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warks.

EUROPEAN Parliament building too small? Then sack the army of pen pushers, paper shufflers and keyboard tappers. KEITH ANDREWS, Evesham, Worcs.

WHAT does the BBC stand for? Biased. Bigoted. Crass. HILLARIE FLOYD-JEWELL, Sherborne, Dorset.

I HAD seen more than 50 films before I was 11 (Mail), including John Wayne’s The Quiet Man and all the Bowery Boys films. I even went to the pictures before I was born, as my mother was an usherette. PHILIP BRANNON, London SE25.

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