Straight to the POINT

THE Three Musketeers are back: Whitty, Johnson and Vallance. I can’t wait for the next exciting episode.

BARRY HILL, Whipsnade, Beds. THE Labour Shadow Cabinet reshuffle was just rearranging the old furniture.

JOHN EVANS, Wokingham, Berks. HOW lovely to see Norway’s gift of a Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square. At least one European country remembers what they owe us for their survival as a free country.

E. WASS, Mansfield, Notts. IT MUST be bad for the environment to cover your house and garden in Christmas lights.

ROBERT HABENS, Havant, Hants. THE 1.5 million patients who failed to turn up for a medical appointment in a month should be fined £5 before they can make a new one.

KEITH JEFFERY, Chatham, Kent. IF CHANGING the handles on a supermarket shopping trolley makes you buy more (Mail), use a basket instead.

BILL DAVIS, Biggin Hill, Kent. I’D LIKE to see some research into making trolleys go where you want them to.

Mrs DAPHNE EMPSON, Chelmsford, Essex. THE reason Tom Utley’s toast falls butter side down has nothing to do with Sod’s law. It just means he’s buttered the wrong side.

PETER HAYWARD, Rochester, Kent. IT’S Groundhog Day on TV: same old faces, same old shows.

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