Straight to the POINT

÷ FIVE police cars and eight officers to apprehend a wayward Yorkie (Mail)? Surely the Met should prosecute itself for wasting police time. PAUL HART, Staithes, N. Yorks. ÷ PERHAPS the reason the Royals did not applaud Diana’s brother’s eulogy was because they did not think a funeral was the time and place to start clapping. D. ARNOLD, Carterton, Oxon. ÷ PRINCE PHILIP has gone up even further in my estimation with the revelation that he told Blair’s cronies where to go (Mail). TIM STEVENSON, Whiston, S. Yorks.

÷ THE solution to charging electric vehicles is simple: attach a windmill to the roof so it can charge the battery as it travels. J. WEARING, Macclesfield, Cheshire. ÷ THE award-winning one-liners at the Edinburgh Fringe were not sharp, witty or to the point. My joke is funnier: Amazon delivery by drone? It will never take off. JAMES WIGNALL, Accrington, Lancs. ÷ WITH councils renaming cat’s eyes as road studs for fear of causing offence, what are these bird brains going to call hot dog stands? MICHAEL TARRANT, Welling, Kent.