Straight to the POINT

÷ HOW long before Paul Hollywood’s former girlfriend appears on a TV reality show? Not The Great British Bake Off, of course!

KATIE BENNETT, Fowey, Cornwall.

÷ TRADES unions should pay compensation to the public for inconvenience caused by strikes.

WILLIAM OLDFIELD, Minehead, Somerset.

÷ I AGREE with racing driver Max Verstappen: give all F1 drivers a Mercedes and then see how good Lewis Hamilton really is.

JOHN McBAIN, Witney, Oxon.

÷ THE BBC should use the money from making pensioners pay for a TV licence to create a dedicated sports channel. This would relieve the main channels of boring coverage.

KEITH THOMPSON, Warington, Cheshire.

÷ A BETTER use of ruthless hospital car parking firms would be putting them in charge of recouping the costs of health tourism.

KEITH TURNELL, Market Rasen, Lincs.

÷ IN WHAT will be a difficult transition after Brexit, we should back our manufacturers, farmers and fishermen and buy British (Letters).

L. WYATT, Littlehampton, W. Sussex.

÷ I WOULD buy British except that we don’t make consumer products any more.

A. CORBETT, Derby.

÷ INSTEAD of Land Of Hope And Glory, when we leave the EU, we should play The Great Escape.

DANA PERRIN, Ticehurst, E. Sussex.

÷ THOSE at Brighton Pride did not have much pride in the town, judging by the litter left.

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