Straight to the POINT

I AM not surprised that half of all adults are on prescription drugs (Mail). For far too many GPs the prescription pad is the quickest way of getting patients out of the door.

R. HAVENHAND, Nantwich, Cheshire.

MY GRANDCHILDREN always say please and thank you to Alexa (Letters) — and then giggle at the reply: ‘No sweat.’

NINA SPEAR, Frome, Somerset.

WHY do manufacturers make vegetarian foods resemble and taste like meat? I became a vegetarian to avoid this.

ANN SMITH, Bedale, N. Yorks.

ISN’T it wonderful how many people with asthma manage to become world-class cyclists?

RON TODD, Yate, Glos. STEPHEN PERKINS, Grimsby.

WHATEVER happened to British gumption (Mail)? It’s gone the same way as common sense . . . and lost the will to live.

WENDY JENNINGS, Hale, Cheshire.

SORRY, you won’t be able to save up your 25p-a-week pension increase at the age of 80 for a monthly visit to Poundland (Letters). You have to pay 20 per cent tax on it.

JOHN SIMCOCK, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs.

WITH 70 repeats from Monday to Friday, should BBC2 be renamed Channel Repeats?

B. MATHER, South Brent, Devon.

WHEN a snowman melts, does he become gender-fluid?

GORDON TYLER, Market Deeping, Lincs.