Straight to the POINT

A DIVORCE settlement of £50 billion for leaving the EU? I think we could accept that. Just make the cheque payable to the Bank of England. GRAHAM WATSON, Upminster, Essex. I ASSUME the £32 million aid being sent to the Caribbean is from the foreign aid budget. C. GOODALL, Portsmouth, Hants. IT’S ironic that taxpayers are funding relief and rescue efforts to island havens that allow the wealthy to avoid paying British taxes. J. ROBERT-POULAIN, Bexhill-on-Sea, E. Sussex. A TASK force lead by HMS Ocean is helping disaster relief in the Caribbean. Isn’t this the flagship that Defence Secretary Michael Fallon wanted to sell off? A. REID, Glasgow. IN ORDER to be gender-neutral, I’ve asked my grandchildren not to call me ‘grandad’ anymore. From now on, I’ll be their ‘linear creation unit’. DENNIS NISBET, Whickham, Co. Durham. BANNING powerful vacuum cleaners is not good for the environment. Now it will take three times longer to clean a carpet. GLORIA ALLAN, Darlington. IF THERE are no laughs in Coronation Street (Letters), there are too many disasters in EastEnders: a gas explosion, arson, a shooting and an ambulance overturned by a lorry. CLAIRE SUMMERS, London NW11. THE BBC might refer to ‘train’ stations (Letters), but the satnav on my South Korean Hyundai rightly calls them ‘railway’ stations.

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