Straight to the POINT

÷ HEALTHY living tip: use the stairs. Don’t get into a lift with miserable old biddies! K. L. REID, Leicester.

÷ I AM Barnsley born and bred, so know Yorkshire pudding is served as a separate course with lashings of thick onion gravy. Jam or treacle (Mail)? Ugh! K. R. SCHOFIELD, Bridport, Dorset.

÷ YOU can add tattoo parlours to the list of successful High Street shops (Mail). ANDREW PETTIGREW, Haslingden, Lancs.

÷ THE best way to open a Fray Bentos meat pie (Mail) is with the small tin opener in a military ration pack. The only problem is that you need the strength of a Royal Marine Commando. CHRIS MILLS, Oswestry, Shropshire.

÷ POLITICIANS want to raise the age for using all gambling machines to 18, but reduce the voting age to 16. GEORGE KELLY, Burgh-le-Marsh, Lincs.

÷ THE country is desperate for another Iron Lady. Instead we’ve got Tremulous Theresa. COLIN DRURY, Dinas Powys, Vale of Glamorgan.

÷ I’D LIKE to add Wetherspoon’s Tim Martin to a wish list of businessmen to negotiate Brexit. JANET SIMMS, Peterborough, Cambs.

÷ GIVE £10,000 to pensioners, not 25-year-olds, to solve the housing problem. They could build a granny flat so their children or a tenant could move into the family home. JOHN KIRK, Daventry, Northants.

÷ MEGHAN shares a birthday, August 4, with the Queen Mother, Barack Obama — and me! EMMA WOODCOCK, London E1.

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