Why so excited about a festive fizzy drink truck?

WHAT are the Coventry Business Improvement District big wigs thinking about?

The Royal Society for Public Health calling for a reduction of sugary drinks because of the obesity problems in our children.

Trish Willetts, Coventry BID manager, getting ecstatic over the Coca Cola truck coming here giving away drinks. I bet they say they are offering reduced or zero sugar. Ha ha.

Do the Business Improvement District really believe this is one of the exciting things coming to Coventry? Think again! S P Earley Binley Woods

Another fiasco with Universal Credit

THE new Universal Credit benefit system is proving to be mistakeridden and it is about to cover the whole country, causing great misery where it lands. Perhaps it should be renamed Universal Callousness because it is leaving many claimants without money for weeks on end and relying on food banks. Come on Theresa May, you can do better than this. Stop putting compassion on the ration. We don’t need another Poll Tax-like fiasco. Max Nottingham Lincoln

Sign book to pay respects

A BOOK will be in the War Memorial Park on Sunday, November 12, at the Service of Remembrance. All are welcome to sign the book and pay tribute to all who served their country. Michael Smith Wyken

Brexit irony is that it will harm elderly

REMEMBER those idyllic Leave campaign images of stress-free hospital and GP waiting rooms – in split-screen contrast with the chaos of Remain?

Well, news of the Brexodus of EU nurses and doctors should run a chill up the spines of the elderly in particular who voted Leave.

It would be an irony indeed if they, being the more likely to be in need of the NHS – and of social care – should be the ones to suffer most acutely from their own decision.

Idyll? The medical reality of Brexit could be their worst nightmare. John Payne Hinckley

We voted to leave, not the government

IN reply to Andy McDonald’s letter (Nov 2) blaming Theresa May for continuing with Brexit talks.

He seems to be missing one fundamental point, and that is, it was the country (17 million of us) who voted to leave Europe and not the government.

I hope the government continues to proceed with the will of the people and gets us out of the EU to give us back our freedom of making choices of our own, instead of being told what we can or can’t do with our laws, immigration policies and trade deals with the rest of the world. The quicker we are out, the better. Roy Frost Marton

Glowing praise for Blue Planet II

IT is a terrific new series, Blue Planet 2, which is credit to David Attenborough. Ian Harris Radford