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JAM PACKED
"A 2,500-year-old chariot is found by engineers working on the new A1 motorway in West Yorkshire" (Workers unearth ancient chariot, 3 December) – you mean motorway jams are THAT bad in the UK now?
Helen Burford
Paris
OLD BEFORE TIME
Your article on the elderly getting into computer games (Pensioners catch the gaming bug, 3 December) says that 50,000 people in a survey ticked the "over-35" box. Did I miss the news flash that the age of retirement had been reduced by 30 years? And if so, where's my pension?
John Airey
UK
SPAM POETRY
A classic line in Spammers turn to classic prose (1 December) raised a smile here today. "By including random text, the spammers hope to fool the filters into thinking that a human, not a spammer, wrote the message." I won't say what subspecies I think spammers belong to, but I will say it's nice to see it in print that they are indeed not members of the human race.
Garry Heather
Andover, UK
NOW SCOOT
As one of London's few Segway riders, I agree that it is the gadget most likely to attract the attention of the opposite sex (10 things we didn't know this time last week, 28 November).
Isidore Margaronis
UK
YOUNG DOCTORS
I am a single parent medical student, the first person in my family to go to university. By the time I leave, I will owe £35,000. I don't have enough money to pay my fees (which I have to pay as I already have one degree); more importantly I don't have enough money to live on because the government doesn't support single parent students. I work hard and I think I'll make a better doctor than some of my peers, who simply don't understand real life yet. So why so little support? There are more issues than just top-up fees to debate (Clarke begins tuition fee fight, 8 December).
Lisa Tyrer
Manchester, UK
CHEAP FLIGHTS
In EasyJet unveils jump in bookings (5 December), is this the next stage after stand-by bookings? What happens with this type of ticket – does the plane just slow down a little and the passengers leap aboard to save turnaround time?
Mike
UK
NATIONAL TREASURE
Can I be the first to demand that David Hemmings' eyebrows be saved for the nation so that future generations may admire them? (Obituary: David Hemmings, 5 December).
Dave Williams
Prudhoe, UK
GET BEHIND THE SOFA!
Remaking Dr Who without the Daleks will be like resurrecting Top Gear without Clarkson. It won't work. The Daleks, and indeed the Cybermen ARE Dr Who. Maybe the Daleks need a little modernising (such as an anti-gravity base for getting up stairs), but leaving them out is a crime (Interview with Dr Who writer, 2 December).
A N Member of the Public
UK
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
Bob Metcalfe (The Last Word, 2 December) is mistaken. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is named simply Buffy Anne Summers. It's been shown on her gravestone several times. In this case at least, Buffy is not short for Elizabeth.
Kate Donnellan
Blackburn, England
GLASS HOUSES
In response to Robin Hughes (The Last Word , 2 December) – don't be so anal! Oh, and I hope I'm not shooting myself in the foot when I point out that there are two d's in Addams.
Nick Nevin
London, UK
OFF LIMITS… NOT
What do editors of the Lancet know that the rest of us don't that leads them to believe prohibition will work with tobacco, given the level of success with heroin, ecstasy, cannabis, etc etc? (UK ministers urged to ban tobacco, 5 December).
Tim Fothergill
Manchester, UK
'TIS THE SEASON
In Quiz of the week's news (4 December), the seventh question says "…the three most performed Christmas songs in Britain last year were: Fairytale of New York (The Pogues and Kirsty McColl), Merry Xmas Everybody (Slade) and White Christmas (Bing Crosby). Rank them in order, most popular first." Clearly you've misused the word popular. Or is that too bah humbug?
Michael Eccleston
Birmingham, UK
SHAKE IT
Am I the only person who upon reading Ancient fossil penis discovered (5 December) had a sudden and not entirely pleasant image of Peter Stringfellow?
Paul Gitsham
Manchester
ALIEN LIFEFORM
In response to Dave Williams' comment in The Last Word (2 December), Vega is a star and not a planet. Seeing as stars are big balls of burning gas, then it's impossible for an alien to live on Vega. Thus no Vegans.
Will Kew
Aboyne, Scotland
ALIEN LIFEFORM II
Whilst I realise it's an attempt to be amusing, I find the comment about Vegans very offensive (The Last Word, 2 December). There are those who have become vegans for ethical reasons, and those who restrict themselves to this diet for religious reasons eg: Buddhists. Would you allow Dave Williams space on your site to offend members of a religion? I hope not, but you appear to think it's acceptable to offend people who have taken action to live by their principles.
Su Martin
Lincolnshire
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