Straight to the POINT

÷ BREXIT has stalled, the country is in a mess and MPs are going to take a six-week summer break. I give up.

MICHAEL ADAMS, Rugby, Warks.

÷ LEGAL fees to administrate a £500,000 estate should be around £2,200 (Mail)? The solicitors who acted as executors for my late brother-in-law’s £250,000 estate charged £8,100.

Name and address supplied.

÷ A DIRE warning sign on a box of sticky toffee: Remove plastic tray before consuming.

ROBERT JONES, Lytham St Annes, Lancs.

÷ IF PRESIDENT Trump builds a wall in space, will the Martians have to pay for it?

MERVYN WILLIAMS, Huddersfield, W. Yorks.

÷ WHOEVER renamed the pudding Spotted Richard has no idea of cockney rhyming slang: a Richard the Third is most unsavoury.

ANTHONY GEORGE, Dorney, Berks.

÷ DOES the House of Commons restaurant still serve cocktails?

ROGER GRIFFITHS, Loughton, Essex.

÷ THE person who came up with the idea of putting the Dad’s Army cast on postage stamps deserves a medal.

Mrs J. MITCHELL, Crawley, W. Sussex.

÷ ANY chance of a recipe that doesn’t include garlic? It ruins the delicate flavour of fish, veal, pork and chicken.

WILF DOE, Nottingham.

÷ THERE is nothing ‘mutual’ about Nationwide Building Society’s board pay structure.

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