Straight to the POINT

÷ POISONED eggs in our supermarkets (Mail)? I bet Edwina Currie is punching the air and shouting: ‘Yes!’ MIKE DAVEY, Castle Bromwich, W. Mids.

÷ HAS Sue Barker’s husband only grown to the height he is since buying their house or has the property shrunk? Surely it would have been prudent to buy a bigger house. KEVIN MASON, Sittingbourne, Kent.

÷ WE MIGHT spend as much as other European countries on health (Mail), but hospitals are facing huge bills as a result of PFI projects. JOHN KING, Grimsby, Lincs.

÷ DID the cost of EC president Jean-Claude Juncker’s £24,000 flight include his wine bill? If so, it could be considered a bargain. STEPHEN TONG, Pudsey, W. Yorks.

÷ THE former colonies did not have to pay a divorce settlement to gain independence from the British Empire, so why should we have to buy our independence from the EU? ROGER LANCASTER, Bristol.

÷ IF THE BBC gives each of Vanessa Feltz’s 300,000 listeners £1, they could drop the presenter and save themselves up to £99,000. SANDRA PARSONS, Keston, Kent.

÷ SIR JEREMY HEYWOOD is referred to as the country’s most senior mandarin. I always thought of Sir Cover-Up as a bit of a lemon. IAN JONES, Watford, Herts.

÷ WHY the fuss about farm names on supermarket foods (Mail)? Even I knew the stork never made all that margarine.

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