Straight to the POINT

IN WHICH garden centre did Philip Hammond buy his money tree seeds? EDDIE PEART, rotherham, S. Yorks. MARRIED pensioner: £12.66 better off per month from next April thanks to the Budget. Council tax rise: £15 per month. COLIN COCKSEDGE, Milton Keynes, Bucks. DON’T blame Amazon or eBay for the High Street’s demise. It’s down to greedy council car parks treating motorists as cash cows. L. DALE, Dorking, Surrey. DULL wording on the Brexit 50p: ‘Friendship With All Nations.’ I’d prefer: ‘Free at last.’ DAI WOOSNAM, Grimsby, lincs. WHY worry about who will be on the new £50 banknote (Letters)? My local sub post office won’t accept the current one. A. CHRISTY, wrexham, Clwyd. CARS will soon be preceded by a man with a red flag (Littlejohn)? Convoys on narrow roads are already preceded by a man on a pushbike. GEORGE BOSTON, Tamworth, Staffs. GLAD we didn’t have seismic monitors when we were blasting coal out of the ground or we would still be in wattle-and-daub hovels waiting for the Industrial Revolution to start. PAUL MORLEY, Skipton, N. Yorks. LIKE Gyles Brandreth, I am a stickler for grammar (Mail). I hate nouns turned into verbs, such as ‘the athlete medalled’. V. WILLIAMS, ludgershall, wilts. DUE to Donald Tusk’s resistance to Brexit, should we call him the elephant in the room? MAGGIE WILLIAMS, Coventry. 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