Your Letters
Oh come on, Paper Monitor. You left out the fabulous simile that Ann Widdecombe "danced in a way that left Anton du Beke looking like a man trying to shift a fridge-freezer up a flight of stairs". Journalistic genius!
Catherine, Ealing
Will the Red Cross be telling film and play producers to change history? Will 11-13thC (ish)Crusaders have to change their red crosses to green or any other colour for that matter? I'll get my matrons cape...
Jo, Aylesbury
I can't quite decide if this was an over-reaction by the Red Cross but as I suspect it really annoyed the pantomime's star, Jim Davidson, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
Michael, Edinburgh, UK
You're right, MCK (Thursday letters), you do get a QI-klaxon... according to Wikipedia:
In 1956, he [Bob Holness] starred in a South African radio adaptation of Moonraker, making him the second actor to portray James Bond (Barry Nelson played Bond in a 1954 adaptation of Casino Royale). He subsequently presented a regular show on Radio Luxembourg.
Mark, Bridge
Did you have to publish these during working hours? I now have to try and convince my colleagues that I have something in my eye... yes, both of them!
Lucy P, Ashford, Kent
I wish people would start pronouncing "idyll" as "eye-dill", with the accent on the second syllable. The way it is prounced now sounds awful - nothing like what it actually means, which is akin to "ideal".
Elsie Ellis, Goring, West Sussex, England.
How on earth do they interrogate it? Ve have vays of makink you squawk?
Fred, Rotherham
I can assure you that Power Balance bands work wonders for balance.
I popped one under the leg of my dodgy kitchen table and now it's solid as a rock.
Result.
Peter McKean