AND ANOTHER THING...

To the elderly female on the Merseyrail Ormskirk service, when offering you my seat I didn’t expect the response of, ‘No, I don’t want to sit there. I won’t be able to bloody well get up.’ I’m a pensioner myself and we don’t all play on getting old. I heard the fourletter word you used in conversation with other passengers. What an obnoxious creature you are.

John Lewis, Liverpool

Mesut Özil has offered to pay the wages of Arsenal mascot Gunnersaurus (Jerry Quy, right), who has been laid off (Metro, Wed). I have a better idea. Özil can’t get a game for Arsenal at the moment for love or loads of money so let him don the costume instead. All we need do then is alter the name slightly to Gunner-never-saurus.

Dec (Le Gooner), Essex

Regarding TfL staff seeing someone jump the barrier and not stopping them (MetroTalk, Tue). I’m pretty sure they have been told by management not to put themselves in danger. Could you be sure the barrier jumper did not have a weapon such as a knife? I fully support keeping TfL staff safe.

Colin, London

The barrier jumper in Stratford is clearly a legacy of the 2012 Olympics.

Don Trower, Braintree

While your three of the best pubs in Greenwich (Metro, Tue) are indeed fine establishments, you omitted the wonderful Plume of Feathers in Park Vista, just by the National Maritime Museum entrance to Greenwich Park. Always a friendly welcome, even during Covid restrictions, and a decent selection of ales and food, this has been Greenwich’s best-kept secret for more than the half a century I’ve been popping in… well, now no longer a secret, but you know what I mean!

Geoff Billingsley, Greenwich

What planet is Martin Lawrence on, saying he can’t watch Spitting Image because it’s on Britbox (MetroTalk, Wed)? At £5.99 a month, it’s cheaper than a couple of coffees and it has great programmes. Pauline, Southwell