Straight to the POINT

÷ I AM surprised the average price of a pint of lager is £3.58 (Mail). I am so lucky my local only charges £1.99. Can anyone beat that?

CLIVE WALLIS, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.

÷ MY LOCAL has increased the price of a pint by 50p in the past 12 months. No wonder pubs are closing at the rate of 18 a week.

MIKE MOLLART, Nottingham.

÷ I HOPE we don’t ban the burka. On seeing myself in the mirror this morning, I’m thinking of getting one.

DOREEN MILLS, Ferring, W. Sussex.

÷ HOW can the list of the world’s top 100 women not include Catherine of Braganza, the Portuguese wife of Charles II, who brought the cup of tea to Britain?

PETER MOORE, Loughton, Essex.

÷ SURREY Police say tweets to locals about travellers were ‘intended to be impartial and encourage both sides of the discussion’. Could they give the wording of the tweets they sent to the travellers?

DEREK BIDDLE, Harrow, Middlesex.

÷ WELL done to Harry Kane’s fiancee Kate Goodland for giving birth without pain relief. But it’s nothing new. After a difficult birth with my first baby, my GP taught me hypnosis and I had a very easy second birth in 1973.

BARBARA TOMES, Cambridge.

÷ THE Tories want 50 per cent of candidates to be women (Mail). I just want 100 per cent to be capable and willing to do the job we pay them for. Sex, colour or creed is immaterial.

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