Straight to the POINT

÷ WELL done ITV for demonstrating on Britain’s Got Talent how patriotic the audience, panel and TV viewers are by voting the D-Day Darlings — with an appearance by World War II veterans — into the finals. GEOFF NEAUM, Heydon, Cambs.

÷ A KOREAN boy band is No 1 in the U.S. pop charts. What are the odds of that? BOB PHILLIPS, Bristol.

÷ WE’VE 32 years before the taps run dry (Mail). Time to install desalination plants. BRIAN GLENISTER, Woking, Surrey. ÷ I WAS annoyed to read the whole of Homebase had been sold for a pound on the day they charged me £9.99 for a hammer! J. BUTTERWORTH, Oldham, Lancs.

÷ AFTER struggling to open a Fray Bentos meat pie (Letters), my expensive, heavy-duty opener won’t open any tin. B. D. STIMPSON, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.

÷ IF M&S merges with Poundstretcher, will they be called Stretch Marks? RON ARMSTRONG, Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham.

÷ THE clothes on sale in M&S look the same as when I worked at the store in the Sixties. The only difference is the prices are higher. SUE PRITCHETT, Hucknall, Notts.

÷ THERESA MAY and her Cabinet would excel on the radio show I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue. GEOFF PRITCHARD, Crewe, Cheshire.

÷ BORIS JOHNSON can have his post-Brexit plane decorated with the Union Flag once the Queen gets a new royal yacht. CAROL OWEN, Chorley, Lancs.

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