Straight to the POINT

STORMS seem to have become more severe since they were given names.

PETER THOMAS, Widnes, Cheshire.

SPITTING at and punching police officers should result in a custodial sentence, not a mild admonishment (Mail).

CHRISTOPHER ELLIS, Colkirk, Norfolk.

IF THE EU is to continue to use English as its official language, should we charge them a fee?

WILLIAM CARTER, Aylesford, Bucks.

JUST like Greece, the EU negotiating team seems to have lost its marbles.

JOHN PARTRIDGE, Maulden, Beds.

IT’S no wonder the National Trust is losing members if it insists on barcodes being used in a Victorian sweetshop (Mail).

TERRY CALDON, Thanet, Kent.

BRIGHTON cut off by flooding. Send mung beans and lentils.

PHIL NORTH, Brigg, Lincs.

DUE to the number who have resigned or been sacked from the Government, perhaps Dominic Cummings should be renamed Goings.

CLIVE WHICHELOW, London SW19.

WHAT with coronavirus, flooding, Brexit and falling interest rates, I wish all I had to worry about for Easter was a funny-looking chocolate caterpillar cake!

JOHN McGILL, Dumfries.

PERHAPS we should all dig up our lawns and grow vegetables.

ADRIAN BONNINGTON, Northampton.

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