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been SURELY done, we not should what’s vote beenat this promised? election on what’s I HOPE all the election PAULA contestantsKENT, Hastings,have readE. Sussex. aboutand reflectthis year’son what bumper would asparaguswe do without harvest all (Mail)the Bulgarian workers to pick this delicacy for us.

J. KENNEDY, Manchester. IF EVERYONE from Eastern Europe thinks Britain is so wonderful that they want to live here, they might at least vote for us in the Eurovision Song Contest.

CHRISTINE HYLAND, Whitstable, Kent. AGED 81, I no longer get whistled at as I go by (Mail), but a little girl in the supermarket said in a loud voice: ‘Daddy, the lady behind us is very old, isn’t she?’ Should I have called the police?

WENDY ROWBOTHAM, York. A CYCLE race that starts in Yorkshire, goes round Yorkshire and finishes in Yorkshire is called the Tour de Yorkshire. Do they not speak English in Yorkshire?

BARBARA THOMAS, Billingshurst, W. Sussex. JANET STREET-PORTER and Dr Liddle (Letters) are wrong about Kenneth Clarke’s taste in jazz preferences. Ken is a regular at Ronnie Scott’s club and is very much into modern, not trad, jazz.

IAN McKISSACK, Hanham, Bristol. I HAD to smile at the story of the bloke who copped an inheritance for cleaning some gutters (Mail). I once resuscitated a chap who had drowned (using the method I learned in the Scouts), but all I got was a thank-you card.

EUGENE POWER, address supplied. I WAS bird watching in my garden when a large crow landed on the lawn, picked up two pieces of bread, flew to the bird bath and dunked the bread before eating it. How clever is that?

BETT PITMAN, Castle Donnington, Derby.