Mute the meerkats

THE TV ad that has me reaching feverishly for the mute button (Letters) is the one with meerkats.

By far the best commercials are Specsaver ads, which are inventive, amusing and better than some of the programmes they interrupt. MICHAEL SMITH,

Chatham, Kent. THE best-ever TV ad was for Clarks shoes in the 1970s. After a number of children tell us they want to be firemen and so forth, one precocious little girl says: ‘Mummy says that when I grow up, I’ll be a proper little madam.’

ANDY CULLEY, Weymouth, Dorset.