Your Letters
16:13 UK time, Wednesday, 5 December 2007
Last week one MP called for the Welsh Dragon to be added to the Union Flag. This week, another MP calls for . Perhaps a fight to the death between the two honourable Members would be in order?
Richard, Newport, Wales
Re : "Elephants showed surprise when they encountered the scent of an individual who was actually walking behind them so could not possibly have been there."
How do elephants show suprise?
Janet Hayes, Pontypool, Wales
Now that the ±«Óãtv website is taking advertising, how come Monitor isn't cashing in? Oatmeal manufacturers alone would surely be enough to fund Monitor's early retirement to Mustique?
Sarah
Today's stat just sums up Christmas - three months of preparation for three days slumped in front of the TV feeling you've overdone it on mince pies and booze.
Helen, Leicester
Oh dear, Paper Monitor, I thought you knew better: "...at 4am in the morning"? As opposed to all the other 4ams in the course of the day?
I'll fetch my morning jacket...
Rob Pallister, Chelmsford, Essex
Martin in Glasgow (Tuesday's letters) complains that the "average family's income" and the "average family's expenditure" don't tie up. Isn't this how consumer debt arises? And doesn't publishing the figures make it worse by making us think we're below average if we don't spend that much?
Warren, Bristol
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