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Re: Montana woman fights bear with courgette, I don't know about courgettes in the UK, but zucchinis as they are known here in N America, can get seriously marrow-ish, so there's every chance that she stunned the beast senseless when she smacked it around the head with a vegetable as it tried to gnaw her leg off. I mean, we wouldn't want anyone thinking that bears in Montana run off when someone wags a finger at them, now would we?
Nigel, Edmonton, Alberta Canada

When I told my husband about this story, he said he'd run away if anyone tried to get him near a courgette (or any other green vegetable really).
Susan Thomas, Brisbane, Australia

Re. Council tax bands. They should bring a new band, A* in for council tax. It's too easy to get an A nowadays.
Phil, Milton on the Keynes

Jennie F, Leeds, UK (Thursday's letters) - as an expat northerner now down south, it's nice to see the use of the word "quid". My (southern) wife informs me that it's just not something that's used down here. Is latin not taught in the south anymore?
Phil, Milton on the Keynes

Is it possible for the average human olfactory system to distinguish between the excreta of humans and other animals? Probably, yes. Humans tend not to eat as healthily as most animals, and there is certainly a difference between the smell of a backed up sewer and that of a freshly muck spread field. P.S. I've submitted various comments to this section over time, with much less lavatorial themes, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to discover that this is the only one that ever gets published. Ah well.
Rae, Cardiff, Cymru

In this story you report that "last year only 10 banks in London were robbed and in four of those cases the criminals went away empty-handed." So actually only 6 were robbed!
Sukie, Loughborough

RE: all the people commenting on the Chris Moyles story (Thursday's letters). The whole thing was taken out of context, even the "I'm not a morning" quote has been. Don't comment on something if you don't know what was actually said.
Ian, Kent

Rik (Thursday's letters), the whole point of the rant is that he wasn't getting paid, and hadn't been for two months. Assuming he has a mortgage, television, internet connection, car...there are a lot of things to spend money on each month. Could he have amassed significant enough savings to cover those two months by now? Probably, yes, but he shouldn't have to.
Andrew, Glasgow, UK

If were so familiar with the TripAdvisor webpage, it's a wonder they stayed at the hotel at all!
No Name, Swindon

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