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16:11 UK time, Monday, 16 November 2009
Paul Greggor, London
Today's Springsteen quote is indeed very Spinal Tap, but a headline on Dutch Ceefax today is equally old fashioned rock 'n roll custom: "Metal band trashes hotel room", about a Norwegian band causing 5000 euros worth of damage to a Dutch hotel room. Nothing new, of course, but the Dutch Ceefax service presented it as its main headline today, as if these things had never happened before.
Johan van Slooten, Urk, The Netherlands
I know my math skills aren't quite what they used to be, but I'm pretty certain that if the total is 1.1% and we know that 40% of the fares decrease by 0.4%, that means that the remaining 60% went up by 2.1%. So did we really need Atoc to tell us that in the first place?
Dan, Cambridge
Jonny (Friday Letters) - you have it the wrong way around. The test was whether CD is better than iPod, so the CD player should have been connected to the same model of dock for a fair comparison. and I'll bet you any money the CD would still have won.
Richard, Reading
Close encounters of the ? Sorry, I'll get my chinchilla...
Rob, London, UK
Wouldn't putting the "firmly in the spotlight" rather defeat the point?
Adam, London, UK
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