Straight to the POINT

SO SAD to hear of the loss of Jimmy Greaves, the most talented striker England ever had.

BRYAN HOGSDEN, Weymouth, Dorset.

THE best penalty for the M25 protesters would be community service insulating lofts.

Dr RICHARD SIMONS, East Grinstead, W. Sussex.

THE French are upset by the UK, U.S. and Australia alliance. Hee! Hee!

TONY CLARK, Leicester.

YOUNGSTERS have never heard of spotted dick (Mail)? Don’t tell them about bread pudding or dripping on toast.

E. FIFIELD, Ramsgate, Kent.

WITH energy bills, council tax and petrol going up, I guess we need to increase the daily allowance for attending the House of Lords.

DAVID EDWARDS, Leighton Buzzard, Beds.

HOW sickeningly ironic that in Scotland these days you can get a hearse quicker than an ambulance.

JIM HUNTER, Dunfermline, Fife.

I AGREE with Tom Utley we are all guilty of telling a whopper (Mail). My brother told Glasgow Sheriff Court in the 1960s: ‘I didn’t head-butt him, Your Honour. I thought I knew the chap and was nodding to him.’

NORRIE McGEACHIE, Corby, Northants.

RONALDO can’t sleep because of sheep? He’s obviously not counting them fast enough!

BARRY DAVIES, Chorley, Lancs.

WITH so many unshaven news presenters, I can only assume razor blades are one of the items in short supply in the shops.

ANDREW PETTIGREW, Haslingden, Lancs.

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