Straight to the POINT

ANYONE who puts mayo on fish and chips deserves a £1.25 surcharge from Rick Stein. MIKE SIMPSON, Sheffield.

IF RENAULT can sign a deal with Iran for £595 million, what is stopping UK companies from making deals before Brexit is finalised? JOHN CHITTY, Ripley, Derbys.

THE first available non-emergency GP appointment for my 96-year-old mother is September 21. Is this a record? DIANE LODGE, Dewsbury, W. Yorks.

I’D RATHER eat U.S. chlorine-washed chicken than EU insecticide-poisoned eggs (Mail). ALLAN MULHOLLAND, Doncaster.

ELECTRIC car batteries need cobalt, mined by children choking on dust in the Congo. Is this going green? CHARLOTTE JOSEPH, Lawford, Essex.

I AM lucky my pension has not been deferred (Letters), but I would have happily forsaken it for a lottery jackpot. PETER MITCHELL, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.

HOW much would we all have to pay in tax to cough up the £36 billion to see the back of the EU? It would be worth every penny. JOHN EVANS, Wokingham, Berks.

I AM surprised Mary Beard was criticised for saying there were black Roman soldiers in Britain (Mail). It’s well-known that a Nubian legion was stationed on Hadrian’s wall. GORDON NUNN, Northampton.

I WORKED at the Oxbridge Club for a head waiter who would have shared leftovers. Unlike the unfortunate waitress (Mail), no one would have got sacked for taking them home. D. T. McGRAIL, London N1.