Straight to the POINT

÷ AT WHAT age are children most lovable? (Mail). The age at which they leave home for good.

PAUL PURNELL, Woodhall Spa, lincs. ÷ JOHN PRESCOTT questioned whether the £30 billion to be spent on Trident shouldn’t be spent on the NHS. If we don’t spend on Trident, we might in time not have an NHS.

BRIAN MCAVOY, Thornton-cleveleys, lancs. ÷ GLAD to know Prince Charles’s ‘black spider’ letters eventually found a home on the web.

VINCENT HEFTER, Richmond, Surrey. ÷ THE Queen was right in her performance of the Millennium Auld Lang Syne at the Dome and the Blairs were wrong (Mail). One doesn’t cross hands until the verse ‘And there’s a hand my trusty friend / And gie’s a hand o’ thine’. No wonder Her Majesty was stony-faced.

IAN METCALFE, Perth. ÷ WHY do our MPs continue to defy public opinion by not sanctioning the death penalty for murderers convicted under the judicial system but condone the execution of individuals planning to commit murder at some time in the future?

ROBERT CHAFFEY, Southsea, hants. ÷ MIRIAM O’REILLY wasn’t discriminated against because of her age (Mail). I found her a not very good TV presenter whose fashion in clothes left much to be desired.

Mrs DOREEN HENDERSON, Swindon, Wilts. ÷ IT’S just as well it wasn’t a Rolls-Royce engine that exploded in Las Vegas or Barack Obama would be blaming it all on the British, as he did with the BP oil well.

J. LUXON, Weston-Super-Mare. ÷ FUNNY how many politicians are now clamouring to throw open their doors for refugees. We’ve had a homeless issue for decades — where were the politicians then?

SUSAN WILSON, edinburgh.