Some good news at last – meat isn’t bad for you!
❑ No health risks from eating red and processed meat, so we can continue to enjoy eating bacon, steak, roast beef etc. The key thing is that it’s all about balanced meals, for example, tomatoes and beans with bacon or sausages, onion rings and peas with a steak. As a good source of protein and iron, meat is an essential part of a healthy and balanced diet. It tastes great too! Dave Pinfold, Stockport
❑ Get a load of that veggies! Bacon and pork sausages are not too bad for you after all and I’m not telling you ‘porkies.’ Enjoy yer lettuce sandwiches, I’m off to the butchers. HOGWART
❑ so sausages, bacon etc don’t give you cancer, brilliant news up the fatties. mr coffee
❑ Am I the only one who wouldn’t lose any sleep if we ran out of sausage rolls? And no I’m not a veggie. tubs
❑ How come Londoners can get bus pass [60 plus Oyster] at age 60 yet us plebs up north have to wait till 66? Discrimination or what? Phil, Leeds
❑ sean bean and now gary lineker to get free bus pass because they live in london area. Was 60 in Aug used buses all my life. Can’t get it till 66. Live in Barnsley. Rich get all.
Waspi woman
❑ I was out jogging on quiet country lane yesterday and still got hassled twice by two dogs wanting to bite/run at me. Any other runners sick of it? MishMash, TN3
❑ DMAN: there is a direct link between the rise in violent crimes and murders and the sacking of 20,000 Police officers due to Tory austerity, you should go and speak to the families of those murder victims who have lost loved ones and tell them about your support for the vile Tories and their enforced austerity. Red fred
❑ Now the deadline for PPI has passed, when is something going to be done about the thousands of people who took out Endowment policies to pay their mortgage, now left with huge shortfalls and no lump sum to boost their poor pensions. COCKNEY REBEL, Bispham, Lancs
❑ People are living longer these days, yet 32% of the worldwide population were born after the year 2000. Perhaps global contraception would solve global warming. Grobbo
❑ Pharmacies allege shortages in life saving drugs. Noticed the gallons of methadone dished out to twitchy illegal drug users not on the list? Nice to know if u drop ded in street cos of lack of heart medication u likely to b robbed by a methadone-fuelled thug. Lily the pink
❑ Nissan what’s to stop building cars in Sunderland when we leave the EU... “Serious implications for British industry”. How about we DON’T buy their cars and ship them all back and see how serious implications that has on them. Steve B/heath
❑ Boris Johnson’s quotes from the Charge of the Light Brigade, should have been from Paddy McGinty’s Goat, he must be kidding himself if he thinks EU are going to say yes to his laughable Brexit deal. fred
❑ Dundeedave Oct 2nd, they ARE traitors. Willingly handing over the country and it’s people to be ruled by unelected foreign power. EU superstate is the new reich.
Brynbob. Lincoln
❑ Dundeedave: british soldiers died in two world wars to save our democracy! AL
❑ re DundeeDave you will find BREXITEERS voted out so the UK doesn’t have to answer to Europeans telling the UK what to do. Our soldiers fought against the Germans so they couldn’t tell us what to do – if we had lost the war you would be walking along doing the goose step. Geoff, Newcastle
❑ Has some car manufacturer come out with a new kind of gearbox. I’ve noticed on most that there’s p. and d-1 and 2. This new one must have an s on it which stands for Sunday which limits the speed of the car to not go above 40 mile an hour. jim
❑ To Leo, Leeds. When you’re in the 70s will you bring me some Oxford Bags and a Tank Top back plz. George P
❑ Yes please LEO, I’ll have some sense, some humour and some good tv! Oh and a packet of M&S beef barbecue potato sticks! They don’t make them any more and I loved them! JoM
❑ World Rugby: the All Blacks have the haka. Tonga, Samoa have variations. Wouldn’t it be great for Morris Dancers to represent England’s boys! Any other offers? Dusty, Haverhill
❑ Ross Barkley dropping chips in the back of a cab might have been worse. He could have been eating mashed potato. Albert Bartlett