Straight to the POINT

NEGOTIATIONS are usually a two-way thing, but on Brexit it seems the European Union is doing all the talking and the UK all the paying. Christine Cameron, Perth. CAN I download the Uber ambulance app? Ken Warren, sidmouth, Devon. MY most hated Americanism is ‘from the get go’ (Letters). Why not ‘from the beginning’? SUE BRADFORD, stevenage, herts.

HERE is my recipe for a supermarket ready meal: water, sugar, salt, colouring, flavouring, palm oil and a coagulating agent. Just add mouth-watering packaging. ANGELA WETHERBY, rotherham, s. Yorks.

GOOD news that leisure facilities (Mail) are to duck a business rates rise – it could have become the SNP’s pool tax. Jim COCHRANE, edinburgh.

I WAS a theatre sister in Cape Town and was pursued by Dr Christiaan Barnard (Mail). But he always thought of his patients first and last. name and address supplied.

SO LONG to the stethoscope (Good Health). After a bout of pneumonia, my GP checked my heart through my vest, shirt and sweater. GEORDIE CAMPBELL, Bognor regis, W. sussex. HAS anyone worked out how to fold the new£5 and £10 notes into their wallet? ADEYEMI BANJO, London se15.

THERE’S nothing miraculous about Debbie McGee doing the splits at 59. It’s down to years of training. That’s why I can type at 200 words per minute. MADELINE Bates, st helier, Jersey.