Straight to the POINT

÷ M&S’S loyal customers want to know where the sparkle has gone. MICHAEL VAN DIGGELEN, Aldwick, W. Sussex. ÷ NO WONDER M&S is struggling when its ‘hit’ dress looks like a dressing gown (Femail).

MrS A. rUNDLE, Orpington, Kent.

÷ FOLLOWING Dan Snow’s lead, I have been amazing my granddaughter with tales of Julia Caesar, Horatia Nelson, Christina Columbus, Henrietta VIII, Roberta the Bruce and Martina Luther King.

PETEr SHAW, Attleborough, Norfolk.

÷ I THOUGHT the Go Compare advert was the most irritating until I heard the Postcode Lottery’s ‘Someone’s knockin’ at the door’.

STEVE rEDWOOD, Burbage, Wilts.

÷ I WAS born and bred in Bream, Glos, opposite the disputed maypole (Mail). How can the view of one objector ruin the enjoyment of a whole community?

DONALD TrEHErNE, Barnsley, S. Yorks.

÷ AND there was I thinking it was Wayne, not Coleen, who came with baggage (Mail).

VINCENT HEFTEr, richmond, Surrey.

÷ IT’S a myth that you need the strong hands of a Royal Marine Commando to open a Fray Bentos tin (Letters). We use our teeth!

JOSEPH ALEXANDEr, Sheffield.

÷ WITH scientists blaming the modern obsession with cleanliness on problems in developing immunity to disease, our grandparents have been proven right: ‘You have to eat a peck of dirt before you die.’

D. M. DEAMEr, York.

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