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16:10 UK time, Monday, 18 February 2008

Is it a journalistic convention that you put something in a headline in quote marks when it is, in fact, not true? The story "" might make a casual reader think there is a link between cancer and heavy mobile phone use. However, it describes a study that found a (tenuous) connection between heavy mobile phone use and benign tumours. Not quite the same thing as 'cancer'.
Adam, London, UK

Your frequent snootiness towards the Metro is intriguing, as the "amusing" stories that I read in the Metro on my way in to work are usual repeated on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ News website by mid-morning ie the handshake tumour diagnosis story. Has anyone else spotted this trend?
AD, London

Now that is finished, could I suggest that the new phrase for something never-ending is 'Like Northern Rock paying back taxpayers'
Stoo, Lancashire, UK

I see in the action group has been cleverly named to incorporate all the letters of the town's name - but did anyone pay attention to the acronym they've formed?
Shiz , Cheshire, UK

I've just seen the headline "" So, it seems even the actors are fiddling the accounts now.
Rob Falconer, Llandough, Wales

So . Not rocket scientists then, obviously.
R J Tysoe, London

10 things? I think if you look closely you'll see there are 11 monkeys in this week's picture. The extra is an infant clinging to the belly of its mother (the one in the middle on the left side of the photo).
Scott, Atlanta, GA, USA

The Northern Rock clock is clearly showing the time of 3:19 not 3:20. An inaccuracy of nearly 2%. Is this to be the norm?
Mike Thomas, Wirral

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