Straight to the POINT

÷ A NO-DEAL Brexit could cost the economy £40 billion? That is balanced by the £39 billion we will not be giving them.

PETER A. DiON, Radcliffe-on-Trent, Notts.

÷ TO STOP knife crime, announce that from today drug dealers and violent gang leaders will get a 20-year minimum prison sentence.

HARVEY SEGAL, London N14.

÷ THE average council tax is to rise by 4.5 per cent. Sadly, mine is going up by 5.8 per cent.

BOB SMART, Tewkesbury, Glos.

÷ INSTEAD of washing chickens in chlorine, we could lob them into the local swimming baths to bob about until we want to cook them.

C. GOODALL, Portsmouth, Hants.

÷ IF LABOUR MPs object to new Government money for Northern cities, give it to the police or NHS instead.

FAY GOODWiN, Lutterworth, Leics.

÷ DOING 115mph in a Volvo? Dream on!

PAUL CHARLES COOK, Huddersfield, W. Yorks.