Straight to the POINT
WITH judges like Peter Bowers praising burglars for their courage rather than jailing them (Mail), I can see the sale of shotguns rising sparply.
B. RAMSDEN, Marshchapel, Lincs.
ONE sure sign of the economy being on the up is when your local wine bar is turned into a bank.
KENNETH OSWALD JONES, Rock Ferry, Wirral.
I’VE come up with a great money-making scheme. I’m going to market lapel badges to wear when you go into a bank, reading: ‘I don’t buy from banks, so don’t ask.’
MALCOLM TAYLOR, Trowbridge, Wilts.
ON THE day I became eligible for my bus pass, I was glad to see that Pippa Middleton and I share the same taste in clothes (Mail). But I wonder if she got her example of that red Next top in the sale for £6, as I did.
DENISE BURROWS, Burnley.
FORMER Labour deputy prime minister John Prescott put his wife’s wedding dress in a council rubbish tip. What an appalling waste: why didn’t he give the dress to a young bride or donate it to a jumble sale?
ANN WILLS, Ruislip, Middx.
I BOUGHT a pack of Gressingham duck fillets in plum sauce. After eating them, I saw in the small print on the packaging they were from Thailand. I thought Gressingham duck came from Suffolk.
HOWARD RICHMAN, South Woodham Ferrers, Essex.