Straight to the POINT

IT’S not fair to say Chris Froome won the Tour de France three years running. He only ran a little bit. Vincent Hefter, richmond, Surrey.

HEATHROW and Gatwick should both be given a new runway. That would cut down capacity problems, create competition and allow for future demand. DaViD Beck, Waterlooville, Hants.

LESTER PIGGOTT lost his knighthood and served a prison sentence for tax offences, due to mistakes by his accountant, it seemed. Surely Sir Philip Green should face the same punishment for destroying BHS and its pensioners’ futures.

WenDy Parker, Shirley, W. Mids. SIR PHILIP GREEN should be removed from his £100 million yacht, stripped of his knighthood and returned to the UK to face trial. DenniS Morgan, Bolton, cumbria.

THE Government is to ban Latin abbreviations such as ‘e.g.’, ‘i.e.’ and ‘etc’ as they ‘confuse’ nonEnglish speakers. Surely those choosing to live here should be expected to learn these abbreviations as any British child has to.

MicHael J. locke, rainham, kent. THE sale of tech giant ARM to Japan is just one in a long line of crown jewels disposed of to foreign concerns. What happens if we run out of assets? g.H.J. Perrin, folkestone, kent.

ACTOR Alan Cumming, who lives in the US, has said: ‘Stupid English people are responsible for Brexit.’ He makes his money out of all of us with his film, theatre and TV work. I shall boycott anything he is in. alec young, kilsyth, glasgow. HAVE some people in the two main political parties forgotten elections are won or lost on the centre ground? Few of us are extremely Rightwing or extremely Left-wing. Valerie creWS, Beckenham, kent.