Straight to the POINT

OVER the years I have made donations to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, but after they turned down large funds raised by the Presidents Club charity dinner, I am changing the bequest in my will. DAVID DEARLE, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.

WHY launch a glitterball into space (Mail)? It’s a waste of fuel and causes even more unnecessary pollution. VERONICA GRANT, Eastbourne, E. Sussex.

I’D LOVE to visit the tea plantations in Yorkshire which I see in the TV adverts. Does anyone know where they are? MAGGIE RUANE, Caversham, Berks.

SIR PAUL McCARTNEY called Elvis ‘a complete plonker’. All I can say is it takes one to know one. Mrs J. C. BYRNE, Harrow, Middlesex.

WHY all the fuss about sell-by dates on steak (Mail)? Treat it like game — the older the better, and trust your nose. R. MARTIN, Halifax, W. Yorks.

IMPREGNATION Street (Letters)? No, Coronation Street should be renamed Death Row, after all the murder storylines. Mrs M. MOORE, Bristol.

THANK you, Corrie writers. They have achieved what I could not — thanks to the evil killer saga, my wife will no longer watch it. ALEX GODDARD, Lincoln.

IT’S been suggested Britain would be foolish to go to war with Russia (Letters). If Russia invades, we would have little choice. PATRICK POWELL, St Breward, Cornwall.

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