Straight to the POINT

■ WHY all the fuss about knives and forks? Knives are not used these days, except on the streets of London.

TONY THOMPSON, Banbury, Oxon.

■ TELLING a double-glazing company you don’t have any windows (Letters) just throws down a challenge to a good salesman.

KEN HOBBINS, Birmingham.

■ WILL planning officers approve applications to change the use of their redundant offices, or will they go back to work in them?

RICHARD I. PALFREYMAN, Crewe, Cheshire.

■ RIP-OFF Britain (Letters): I was quoted £3,000 by Volvo to replace the turbo on my car. The local garage lubricated the errant part and cured the problem — at a cost of £50.

NORMAN JACKSON, Woodhall Spa, Lincs.

■ A BATTER is what you use for a Yorkshire pudding, not someone who hits a cricket ball. Though considering recent performances, it’s probably the correct term after all!

ROBERT WRIGHT, St Neots, Cambs.

■ IT’S not just the prices of foreign holidays that have gone through the roof. In January, I booked an August holiday in Kent for £525. Booking it today would cost £915.

ERIC WATERS, Lancing, W. Sussex.

■ FISH fingers grown in labs? Sounds fishy to me, but let’s hope they taste fishy as well.

JEAN COOPER, Milton Keynes, Bucks.

■ WITH ‘t’, aitch and ‘g’ being dropped on TV, I nominate beautifully well-spoken Joanna Lumley as minister of speech and drama.

JOHN ALDERSON, Tonbridge, Kent.

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