Straight to the POINT

■ LOOKING at the defence budget, should those who sign up to protect us be called the Unarmed Forces? M. BUSBY, Birchington, Kent.

■ PLEASE give us a break from Ant and Dec, Claudia Winkleman, Mrs Brown’s Boys, Amanda Holden and Rylan.

KIM ASPINDALE, Eastbourne, E. Sussex.

■ ONCE rail workers accept the pay offer and services return to normal, will passengers notice the difference?

GILLIAN PINNOCK, Glemsford, Suffolk.

■ CAN I appeal to supermarkets to train staff to water the bedding plants they sell. I can’t bear to see them wither and die.

Mrs WENDY SPENCE, Southampton.

■ I SPOTTED the ultimate traffic calming measure: a speed bump with a pothole.

T. BAILEY, Nottingham.

■ DOES painting a white circle around a pothole soften the blow when your car suspension hits it?

ROBERT HABENS, Havant, Hants.

■ THE easy way to open tablet bubble packs (Letters): a cherry stoner.

Mrs C. PALMER, Somerton, Somerset.

■ MOTHER of God! Call on the AC12 team of Superintendent Ted Hastings, DI Steve Arnott and DI Kate Fleming to sort out the Met.

MARTYN HARRIS, Macclesfield, Cheshire.

■ WHAT’S happened to the word ‘our’? Nearly everyone on TV pronounces it as ‘are’.

NEIL HORN, Bebington, Wirral.

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