Straight to the POINT

TIMES are hard for Sir Paul McCartney, busking in a New York railway station and not being able to afford hair dye. RICHARD GIRDWOOD, Brighton.

HERE’S how the police can find out if liquid being carried by people they stop and search is harmful: tell them to pour it over themselves. DAVID BALDWIN, Milnthorpe, Cumbria. I AM SICKENED by the puerile antics on both sides of the Commons. Shut up and grow up. COLIN MacDONALD, Nottingham. WANDERLUST should be called Wanderlost. TONY WHEATLEY, Chichester, W. Sussex.

YES, it is offensive to refer to Labour activists as dogs (Mail). My two pets aren’t as badly behaved as Momentum. PHIL NORTH, Brigg, Lincs. A FOUR-DAY week for more money? Hasn’t Labour heard Mr Micawber’s advice? STEPHEN TONG, Pudsey, W. Yorks.

THE Co-op has stolen a march on its competitors with rock-bottom funerals. Is this thinking outside the box? GEORDIE CAMPBELL, Bognor Regis, W. Sussex.

THANK you, Stephen Fry, for speaking about having prostate cancer. My husband Norman took your advice and had the PSA test. His count was 61 and after treatment it is now 3.5. JANET WHITTALL, Bromyard, Herefordshire.

DADDY wants to be Mummy and Mummy wants to be Daddy (Mail). This is all about the adults. How confusing for their young son. DAVID JOHNS, Bridgnorth, Shropshire. 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