Straight to the POINT

÷ THE saddest sign at my local garden centre: ‘Due to this area entering Tier Four, there will be no further visits to Father Christmas.’

M. SPRINGER, Reading, Berks. ÷ OUR pets will still be able to travel to Europe in the New Year, thanks to an EU concession. What a shame we won’t be able to.

MICHAEL ALBIN, Blackburn, Lancs. ÷ WE HAD an oven-ready deal, but the EU changed the ingredients. So, turn up the temperature and leave them burnt offerings.

STEVE BASKER, Northampton. ÷ WHEN will moaners accept the Government has been saddled with insurmountable problems? Who has any better ideas about how to keep us all healthy and working?

E. W. WILLSON, Mundesley, Norfolk. ÷ MAKE Tom Cruise the Covid Tsar — maybe the public will listen to him.

BRIAN SYKES, Sudbury, Suffolk. ÷ BEING pregnant should be a personal, private and beautiful experience, not another way for celebrities to get publicity.

JEN CRAWFORD, Leeds. ÷ IT’S a Christmas miracle: a white van using its indicators.

ALAN JACOBS, Biddenham, Beds. ÷ HAPPY Scroogemas (Letters)? As keen recyclers, my wife and I have been exchanging the same Christmas card for the past 25 years. DAVID CHUBB, Midsomer Norton, Somerset. ÷ IT’S obvious a woman didn’t write I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday. Mrs JANE ROBERTS, Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk. 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