Straight to the POINT

÷ I WASN’T happy with my O-level results in 1972, so can I please have them upgraded?

MIKE HILL, Market Drayton, Shropshire.

÷ HOW refreshing that Secretary for International Trade Liz Truss is doing her job and battling against unfair tariffs on our Stilton and Scotch.

R. TAOKA-THOMPSON, Egham, Surrey.

÷ DOES Mr Cummings give Boris a list every day of places to go where he can wear a hi-viz jacket and hard hat, thus keeping him from interfering in things he doesn’t understand?

Mrs GILLIAN THOMPSON, Amersham, Bucks.

÷ PLASTIC bags for life can as easily end up killing turtles as single-use carrier bags. They are also not good for bringing home a cake or pie. That’s why baskets were invented.

SUE DOUGHTY, Twyford, Berks.

÷ ONLY one in seven Cabinet Office civil servants are coming into the office (Mail). Send Dilyn to hunt down the absentees.

FREDERICK C. WEBB, Lymington, Hants.

÷ WE’VE had a U-turn for the youngsters, so how about doing the same over free TV licences for the over-75s?

ALAN WARD, Sleaford, Lincs.

÷ COULD the BBC stretch to giving free TV licences to the over-85s?

DAVID GRACE, 85, Bournemouth, Dorset.

÷ ON MY evening constitutional, I’d warble Bob Dylan’s She Belongs To Me: ‘She can take the dog out in the night-time.’ It should be: ‘She can take the dark out of the night-time.’

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