Straight to the POINT

÷ WE WANT a full English Brexit, not just Hammond eggs. KENNETH OSWALD JONES, Rockferry, Wirral. ÷ I’M SURPRISED F1 billionaire Bernie Ecclestone owns a glacier in Switzerland. Are they tax deductible? GEORDIE CAMPBELL, Bognor Regis, W. Sussex. ÷ DOUBLING the sentence for assaults on emergency workers means the wretches will get a two-year suspended sentence rather than one-year. That’ll teach ’em. BOB MACDONALD GRUTE, Newquay, Cornwall. ÷ ANYONE found to be carrying acid on two or more occasions will be jailed (Mail). Why are they not jailed for carrying it on one occasion? Name supplied, Reading, Berks. ÷ PSYCHOLOGISTS at Gettysburg College in the U.S. have come to the conclusion that women use cosmetics to look younger (Mail). You couldn’t make it up. SUE WRIGLEY, Hyde, Cheshire. ÷ HOW can bankrupt Boris Becker get a parking ticket on his brand-new Mercedes? MARTYN CURTIS, Caversham, Berks. ÷ THOUGH Robert Hardman could find scant reference to Britain in the new museum, the House of European History, in Brussels the delicious irony is that the sign over the front door is in English. DOREEN BATES, Hilton, Huntingdonshire. ÷ THE Queen is to get a pay rise of £40 million. I am slightly aggrieved my pension goes up 25p a week — before tax— when I am 80. TOM WATSON, West Kirby, Wirral. FOR permission to copy cuttings for internal management and information purposes, please contact the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA), PO Box 101, Tunbridge Wells TN1 1WX. Tel: 01892 525273. e-mail: copy@nla.co.uk