Straight to the POINT

÷ THE One Show’s Alex Jones is entitled to maternity leave, so why did she rush back to work after three months and then complain there are no creche facilities at the BBC?

BARBARA THOMAS, Billingshurst, W. Sussex.

÷ I AM disappointed Alex Jones’s complaints about the lack of a creche and feeding rooms at the BBC have been trivialised and mocked.

H. SARAWAY, address supplied.

÷ KIRSTIE ALLSOPP is wrong to travel business class while her children sit in economy next to strangers. She should be looking after them.

CHRIS THOMPSON, Ripley, Derbys.

÷ JEREMY CORBYN ought to seek the return of his own marbles before proposing to return the Elgin Marbles.

BOB WYDELL, Oswestry, Shropshire.

÷ PARENTS are suspicious that INSET days tagged on to school holidays are the teachers’ acronym for I Need Some Extra Time.

PAUL HUTCHINSON, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. ÷ INSTEAD of being snooty about a new branch of Greggs, Bath should do something about its leisure centre and swimming pool, which looks more like an old ruin. IAN DUCKWORTH, Rochdale, Gtr Manchester. ÷ I ENJOYED the British Soap Awards despite the fact my favourite, Knight’s Castile, didn’t get a nomination. FRANK SKORROW, Barnsley, S. Yorks. ÷ WHY all the controversy over the casting of West Side Story? I am of Danish extraction, but I don’t expect only a Dane to play Hamlet. HILARY HUMPHRIES, Newmarket, Suffolk. For permission to copy cuttings for internal management and information purposes, please contact the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA), PO Box 101, Tunbridge Wells TN1 1WX. Tel: 01892 525273. e-mail: copy@nla.co.uk