Straight to the POINT

A SECURITY firm apologised for any stress or anxiety caused to a man locked overnight in public toilets (Mail). I notice they avoided the word ‘inconvenience’.

STEVE MITCHELL, London SE8.

SADLY, despite a campaign and petition of almost 2,000 signatures, we have been unable to save our indoor bowls hall (Letters).

LINDA GROCOCK, Gainsborough, Lincs.

EXCESSIVE alcohol takes years off your life (Mail)? Winston Churchill drank a bottle of brandy and champagne every day and died at the grand old age of 90.

HOWARD B. FULLER, Market Weighton, E. Yorks.

THE International Bomber Command Centre Memorial is not just in memory of the Bomber Boys (Mail). My mother, Marion Hollier, 91, who served in Lincolnshire as a Morse code operator from the age of 17, was the youngest veteran at last week’s official opening.

WENDY ROWLAND, Boston, Lincs.

AS COMMON sense continues its downward spiral, political correctness goes from strength to strength.

ROD CRISP, Hunstanton, Norfolk.

IF YOU don’t want to live in Bell End (Mail), there’s a house for sale in the New Forest called Far Corfe View.

LANCE McARDELL, Minstead, Hants.

YOU can no longer be charged a fee to use a credit card to make a payment. How strange that a new ‘service charge’ of £20 has been introduced by my insurer for renewing car insurance with a credit card.

ALFRED LEVY, Ilford, Essex.

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