Straight to the POINT

DO THE powers-that-be regret shutting wards and reducing A&E departments?

JENNIFER A. TAYLOR, Hemel Hempstead, Herts.

FIVE phrases I never want to hear again after the lockdown: Self-isolate, social distancing, unprecedented, vulnerable and furlough.

ALYSON O’NIONS, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warks.

RIP Tim Brooke-Taylor. A country goes into Mourning(ton Crescent).

VINCENT HEFTER, Richmond, Surrey.

YES, we have to queue to buy essentials, but there are no screaming children using the supermarket as a playground.

KAY WAKEFIELD-COLE, Ascot, Berks.

DID the canary yellow paint job on the Golden Lion pub in Todmorden (Mail) use leftovers from the Trotter brothers’ transformation of a Chinese takeaway in Only Fools And Horses?

KEN HOBBINS, Birmingham.

ONE positive of the lockdown: no junk mail.

R. SPIRES, Peterborough, Cambs.

AFTER the Grand National, how about virtual Wimbledon and Test matches?

JACK LEVINSON, Woodford, Gtr London.

IT’S encouraging to see pictures of rainbows in so many windows — a sign of our hope that this virus will be defeated.

BRIAN WARD, Ipswich, Suffolk.

MY VILLAGE clapped and cheered for the NHS and fire engines sounded their sirens in support. Sadly, a parish councillor came out of his house to complain about ‘the noise’.

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