Straight to the POINT

÷ Friends I’VE booked told me a the weekend terminus break of to the Vladivostok. Trans-Siberian railway is a ROY great SMITH, tourist Folkestone, attraction. Kent. ÷ I’ve AFTER just booked Russian the ‘tourists’ James visited Bond Moscow Salisbury, tour on the good ship Gullible. DAVE HAYES, Sandwich, Kent. ÷ SOUPS and shakes on the NHS? All that obese people need is a prescription for willpower. DAVID CULLUM, Kettering, Northants. ÷ SO, I am so in stitches with so-and-sos and their ‘so-ing’. So sad they’re so short of words. GLYNN D. PARRY, Bromborough, Wirral. ÷ IT WAS sad firemen were not invited to the 1945 Victory Parade (Letters). I was a proud 17-year-old representing Bournemouth’s 130 Squadron Air Training Corps. KEN ADAMS, Poole, Dorset ÷ THE only thing I tap when Strictly Come Dancing is on TV is the off switch on the remote control. P. TURBERVILLE, Ashover, Derbys. ÷ LESSONS in life for the young. It’s bad for an adult to harangue you on your doorstep, but it’s OK for an adult to harangue you at school for your hairstyle or skirt length. E. JOAN MOORE, South Molton, Devon. ÷ WHEN will we see the first male MP bringing his young children into the chamber of the House of Commons? BRIAN MORRIS, Wellesbourne, Warks. 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