Straight to the POINT

÷ BOOTS is selling Viagra at £19.99 for four tablets. I pay £6.40 for 30 with a prescription from the vet for my dog, who has pulmonary hypertension, the blood pressure condition for which they were originally manufactured. C. GREEN, address supplied. ÷ DIRTY diesels? My 2012 Citroen C3 1.4 has just passed its MoT with the observation: ‘Emissions were too clean to register.’ J. MASON, Holywell, Flintshire. ÷ TRAFFIC jam alert. The welcoming message on the M62: ‘Delays expected for 94 weeks.’ J. WALMSLEY, Bury, Gtr Manchester. ÷ IT’S barmy to suggest every 25-year-old should be given £10,000 by the Government, at a cost to the country of £186 billion. MIKE WRIGHT, Reading, Berks. ÷ IS PUTIN disputin’ who’s puttin’ the boot in? RAY JONES, Manchester. ÷ THE choice is clear: a country where skilled people are valued for the things they make or one where a few greed-merchants make lots of money quickly and damn the consequences. R. SHEPPARD, Nottingham. ÷ SQUADDIES from the Royal Engineers were arrested in Cape Verde after sunbathing in their underwear while on the way to the Falklands. It’s a good job we didn’t send commandos. MICHAEL TARRANT, Welling, Gtr London. ÷ MET Commissioner Cressida Dick says TV programmes about the police are not true to life. Could it be because on screen the criminals always get caught?

JOHN BRIDLE, Dinas Powys, South Glamorgan.