Straight to the POINT

÷ IN ANSWER to the concerns of R.J. Evans, (Mail), the Republic of Ireland and the UK are not part of the ‘Schengen Area’, therefore, migrants would not be able to enter the Republic or Northern Ireland without going through passport and border control.

T. CarpenTer, Chelmsford, essex.

÷ KIM JONG-UN’S desire to meet President Trump reminds me of the ad in the personal column of a newspaper in the Sixties, which read: ‘Communist with knife and fork wishes to meet Capitalist with pork pie.’

BoB phillips, Bristol.

÷ LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn wants everything in Britain run by those employed by the state; yet he has campaigned against every policy his, or other parties, put forward.

Brian ChrisTley, abergele. Conwy.

÷ WHAT councils gain, by increasing parking charges (Mail), they will more than lose in rates as town centre shops close down.

roland GriffiThs, Wrenbury, Cheshire.

÷ AN INTERNATIONAL airport has a nerve agent attack and it carries on without grounding aircraft. In Salisbury, all hell broke loose just so our leaders look like they are effective.

a.McGraTh, Wallingford, oxon.

÷ NORTH Korea first, now a Russian threat. Anti-nuclear protesters are suddenly quiet.

John evans, Wokingham, Berks.

÷ THE Two Ronnies, Morecambe & Wise, Sir Bruce Forsyth and now Sir Ken Dodd ... the angels must be having a good laugh.

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