Straight to the POINT

÷ HOW odd to see members of the audience at the Last Night of the Proms singing Rule, Britannia while waving an EU flag.

BRIAN LLOYD, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.

÷ WAS the Treasury minister seen leaving Downing Street with an easily readable document stupid, complacent or wanting to leak the Brexit contingency plans?

TERRY MCDONALD-DORMAN, Co. durham.

÷ A BETTER name than Yellowhammer for a No Deal Brexit is Yellow Bellies.

COLLIN ROSSINI, dovercourt, Essex.

÷ DILYN the spaniel swallowed 206 pebbles (Mail). Will he be fined by the council for removing shingle from the beach?

BOB MACDONALD GRUTE, newquay, Cornwall.

÷ GIVEN my parental experience of 25-yearolds, a £10,000 government gift would only last a month.

C. D. FIELD, Mellieha, Malta.

÷ HEY, BA! Didn’t you save a huge amount of money by sub-contracting IT services to other countries? How’s that working out for you?

DON TROWER, Braintree, Essex.

÷ THERE is only one replacement for Chris Evans: Liza Tarbuck plays a good selection of music; is witty, not smutty; and would cater for all tastes, as dear Sir Terry Wogan did.

KAY COPLESTON, Lostwithiel, Cornwall.

÷ POLISH airmen weren’t allowed to march in the 1945 Victory Parade (Letters) and neither were the men, like my father, of the National Fire Service, who served throughout the Blitz.

MICHAEL BENSON, London SE25.

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