Straight to the POINT

NOW that parents will continue to be fined for taking their children on holiday in term time, can we expect schools to be fined when teachers go on strike?

ALAN BROWN, Walsall, West Mids.

DIANE Abbott was quick to blame Brexit voters for the terrible attack on a young refugee. Has she attacked the anti-Semitic members of her own party for the increase in attacks on the Jewish community?

PETER NUGENT, Bootle, Lancs.

THE Apostrophiser (Mail) is nothing more than a comma criminal.

DAVID GREGORY, Stone, Bucks.

WHY is the Highways Department so slow to remove old signs, cones, sandbags and diversion signs when they’re no longer needed? It’s a blot on our lovely countryside.

Mrs B. E. ROWELL, Tiptree, Essex.

GIBRALTAR is right next to Spain and 96 per cent of Gibraltarians voted to stay in the EU. The Scilly Isles are right next to the UK and voted by 56 per cent to stay in the EU. Will they be told, ‘You’re part of the mainland’?

M. DODD, Cheam, Surrey.

WHO honestly believes the EU is capable of agreeing on anything? A clean break is the only way to avoid years of nonsense.

D. GOLDSMITH, Grange over Sands, Cumbria.

THE only difference between Mourinho being in charge at Manchester United instead of Van Gaal is that the players now pass backwards more quickly.

DIGBY HODGSON, Lyth, Cumbria.

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