Straight to the POINT

■ LABOUR is promising a four-day week, the chance to choose your own hours, no tuition fees, increased pensions, a free TV licence for over-75s, cost-free housing for the homeless, extra maternity pay . . . bring it on, I can’t wait.

AMALIA RENNIE, Chester.

■ I WENT to the garden centre to buy a money tree, but an old man had bought the last one.

IAN HARRINGTON, Axminster, Devon.

■ AN INCREASE in fly-tipping (Mail)? What a surprise when we have fortnightly waste collections, reduced opening hours for recycling centres and a ban on taking DIY waste to the council dump.

TERRY CANDLER, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.

■ PRINCE William fears his children will not see wild animals in their natural habitat. Does he mean through the sights of a hunting rifle?

JOHN COLLINS, Chelmsford, Essex.

■ SO MUCH for experts. At primary school in the 1950s, I was taught how our ancestors caught mammoths in pits (Mail).

SHEILA SAVORY, Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey.

■ SELF-PARTNERNED Emma Watson? The word spinster comes to mind.

GERALD NATHANSON, Chigwell, Essex.

■ SMOKERS contribute £12 billion in duties while £2 billion is spent on their hospital treatment. There is no VAT on most food: the obese contribute nothing to their NHS care.

ARTHUR THOMPSON, Enfield, Middlesex.

■ TESCO has ruined Casablanca for me by putting words in the mouths of the film’s stars.

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