Scottish Daily Mail

Straight to the POINT

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CHEATING dance contestant dumped by actress girlfriend in dysfunctio­nal relationsh­ip. Let’s move on, everyone. DIANE SILVA, Lytham St Annes, Lancs.

A SANDWICH degree course (Letters)? I bet there’s a degree in making sandwiches! PETER SMITH, Arundel, W. Sussex.

‘SCOTLAND hooked on happy pills’ (Mail) – now I know why so many people voted SNP! Robert Knox, Bishopbrig­gs, Dunbartons­hire.

WE HAD Junkers trying to bomb us out of existence during the Second World War. Now we have Juncker trying to sink us over Brexit. We didn’t give in then and we shouldn’t give in now. R. SPIRES, Peterborou­gh, Cambs.

SPECTATORS being hit by a golf ball is not a rare event (Sportsmail). I was marshallin­g at the U.S. Open qualifier at Walton Heath in Surrey and was hit in the face by a tee shot. There was no shout of fore. JOSEPH HUGHES, Carshalton, Surrey.

NO SEPTIMUS or Octopus for Jacob ReesMogg and his wife Helena. Should Sixtus be renamed Terminus? DOUGLAS HARRISON, London W5.

WHILE singers, actors and sports stars are dubbed knights or dames, others are fobbed off with lesser honours. My friend became a pioneer in nephrology but apart from a CBE in 1998 he is regarded as less deserving than Tom Jones and Barbara Windsor. W. R. VIOLEN, Holland-on-Sea, Essex.

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