Straight to the POINT

÷ BASICALLY, Mail readers are basically wrong about ‘absolutely’ and ‘like’ being the most annoying words (Letters).

SUE ROWLEY, Barnsley, S. Yorks.

÷ A FRIEND was seen by the optician on Wednesday, had an assessment on Saturday and underwent a cataract operation on Monday. All courtesy of the so-called inefficient NHS.

JUDITH WORRALL, Canterbury.

÷ DON’T blame patients for hospital ‘no shows’ (Letters). I was unable to attend an NHS appointment and twice a day for a week I rang the number on the letter, but was unable to get through to cancel it.

KEN McLEOD, Leeds.

÷ THAT’S another Bank Holiday I’ve got through without buying a cut-price sofa.

BOB PHILLIPS, Bristol.

÷ HALF of people don’t walk briskly for ten minutes in a month (Mail)? I’m hitting 80 and walk three miles a day. On trips to Dartmoor and the New Forest, I aim for ten miles a day. And I consume a bottle of red wine every night.

IAN CRAWFORD, Banbury, Oxon.

÷ JUDGING by its TV ads, Nationwide has turned from a building society into a Bad Poets Society.

T. BAILEY, Nottingham.

÷ WILL drug dealers swap their pitbulls for Yorkshire terriers because the police are terrified of them?

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