Straight to the POINT

WHEN the TV adverts came on, you used to have to rush to put the kettle on. But with Channel 4’s The Great British Bake Off, you have enough time to cook a full-blown meal. DOUG MATTHEWS, Nottingham. THEY should create a hybrid tree/shrub in honour of Brucie — and call it Spruce Forsythia. J. WEBB, Oxford.

I WAS delighted that my one-liner published in Peterborough in February (‘I’ve given up asking rhetorical questions. What’s the point?’) has been voted the Edinburgh Fringe’s third funniest joke. But I was surprised it’s been attributed to Alexei Sayle. VINCENT HEFTER, Richmond, Surrey. ALL this fuss about the eclipse. I’d rather be kept in the dark. DAVID McCABE, Milton Keynes, Bucks.

BEING left-handed, I also I had an advantage in firing a Lee-Enfield .303 (Letters). But when I first used a Bren gun, I ended up with a sleeve full of very hot used cartridges. KEITH ARMSTRONG, Whitley Bay, Tyne & Wear.

LIVING on a brightly lit street could raise your breast cancer risk by 14 per cent (Mail). It could also lessen your chance of being run over by 90 per cent. JOHN VERNON, Brereton, Staffs. WHEN it comes to Tony Blair’s acting ambitions, there is only one part: Billy Liar. MICHAEl EVERETT, Palma, Mallorca.

PLEASE tell me Channel 4’s report on calls Page 4 for the removal of Nelson’s Column because he was a ‘white supremacist’ was a joke. ST JOHN COX, Taunton, Somerset. 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