Straight to the POINT

WHY can’t prisoners help the exhausted fire officers battle the moors blazes — or are they too busy watching the World Cup and Wimbledon? ALUN WILLIAMS, Cardiff.

WITH no end in sight for the dry weather, do we need a government minister to perform a rain dance? DOUG MATTHEWS, Nottingham.

THAT’S a nice £550,000 watch, Rafael Nadal (Mail). Pity you can’t tell the time by it. ROGER VINCE, Upper Brynamman, Carmarthenshire.

BAN the plague of caravans from roads in the West Country between 7am and 7pm. Name supplied, Denbury, Devon.

WHEN we burst a tyre on the M56 near Runcorn, we were stranded for four hours in the hot sun. Thank you to the kind lorry driver who gave us a bottle of water. CHRIS & EILEEN IDDON, Ormskirk, Lancs.