Straight to the POINT

WITH approval for Heathrow’s third runway passed on the same day that the Swansea tidal energy lagoon was rejected, we’re not serious about saving the planet, are we? MARTIN REDWOOD, Pontypool, Gwent. IF ‘3,000 burglaries go unsolved’, is it because chief constables waste their time campaigning to have drugs legalised? PETER WESTRIP, Dorchester, Dorset. LET’S save millions of public money and bring the Grenfell inquiry to an end right now. Just blame the firefighters. RICH BOOMER, Skipton, North Yorkshire. JAMIE Oliver and wife Jools’s anniversary love letters to each other weren’t ‘toe-curling’. It is wonderful that they still feel the same way after 18 years of marriage. Good for them. ANGElA WIlSON, Hoghton, lancs. (WITH respect to Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy) Contractor speaking to BoJo on the building site at the Heathrow extension project: ‘Have you any idea how much damage that bulldozer would suffer if I just let it roll straight over you?’ DON TROWER, Braintree, Essex. HOW come that America, with far warmer summer days, does not suffer from expanding rail tracks, yet we need only a few hot days for passengers to be left on the platform for hours to find out if the tracks have buckled. S.M. WINSlADE-RAFTER, Sheffield. THE UK is to join an EU military intervention force. Are we mad? The EU is clearly the most venomous enemy we have faced since Hitler. WIllIAM BOREHAM, Kingston, Surrey. 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