Your Letters
17:00 UK time, Thursday, 18 June 2009
And there I was thinking was going to be a tale of how not even the great and the good are immune from squirrels invading their gardens...
Laura, Preston, UK
So, Prince Harry is going to be . He'll be giving 110% then?
Alex, Reading
Re Nick Morton (Wednesday's letters): I'm sure I won't be the only one to point out to him, that if the government do decide to pay for an extended broadband network, that money will come through taxation, so is entirely equivalent to a new tax, unless something else is cut. I'd also like to say that not wanting to pay tax to fund something that you don't use yourself is incredibly short-sighted. One of the reasons the government wants faster broadband for all is that it will be beneficial to the economy, and make us all richer.
Sam, Cambridge
I was worried to read at 13:28 today that will "be used to take spectators from St Pancras to the 2012 Olympics site at Stratford in east London in seven minutes." Seven minutes? Yikes, I thought we had until 2012! Is the site ready yet?
Aaron, Reading, UK
I have devised, on this slow Thursday afternoon, a game that all pedants can enjoy. I am sure I am not the only pedant to notice that many price-labels and signs nowadays are written with a character similar to the pound sign, but with two lines instead of one. This symbol refers to Lira, not Pound Sterling. The game, therefore, is to attempt to pay for goods and services in a Lira of your choice where the Lira sign has been used, and the winner is the person who completes the highest-value (in GBP) purchase.
Daniel Hayes, St Albans, UK
RE - Bruno isn't an alter-ego, he is a character. The two are such different things I don't think that even counts as pedantry!
Sophie, London
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