Straight to the POINT

IT’S time to introduce a secure ID card to the UK. Security services need to know who is among us. This latest terrorist used many false names. Without a card, we’re blind. MARTYN WYNESS, Southampton.

INSTEAD of adjusting supermarket trolleys to take the new £1 coin (Mail), they should just give us all a token that fits the present ones. WILLIAM NAPIER, Ormiston, East lothian.

WE have a Belgian (Van Damme) advertising American beer and an American (Matt Damon) advertising Belgian beer. How does that work? GRAHAM DYE, Chester.

AFTER the public loos near our bus station were closed (Letters), I directed people to the council office toilets, two minutes away. The council is now planning to re-open the loos. LESLEY CATON, Tiverton, Devon.

WHEN will Nicola Sturgeon demand a twoday Holyrood debate on education and the attainment gap which she assured us was her top priority? S. DOUGLAS, Edinburgh.

IF THE EU threatens ‘air traffic control chaos’ if we don’t cough up billions (Mail), we should divert London-bound planes from Europe to Edinburgh and sub-contract Megabus for transfers to Heathrow. J. WALMSLEY, Bury, lancs.

STUDENTS think a gap year is important. When my age group finished at university, we were offered two years in the Armed Forces. MIKE JONES, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire.

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