Your letters
16:57 UK time, Tuesday, 4 December 2007
Is Brentwatch back? Am I the first to spot of Ricky Gervais? Do I win a prize?
James Dawkins, Reading
Re Random Stat (children owning gadgets worth >£500) doesn't that just mean that only 15% of children have their own PC? Hardly a picture of middle England living a lavish child centred life-style, since PCs are now the equivalent of slates and pencils.
Henri, Sidcup
Surely a on digital televison telling people how to get television is both pointless and a waste of the airwaves. Then again I suppose this makes sense, the same description applies to quite a lot of the other channels currently available.
Chloe, Chelmsford
Call me a pedant if you like but the tropics cannot expand or contract as suggested in . The tropics of Cancer and Capricorn are fixed and define the band north and south of the Equator where the Sun may be overhead at noon on one or more days during the year. The climate between the tropics may well vary but not their location.
Jeremy, Aylesbury
Murf (Monday's letters) if you think that Metro is a London paper, then I suggest that you may be guilty of the "bias towards the south" that you accuse the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ of? According to their website "Metro is distributed in Bath, Birmingham, Bradford, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Coventry, Derby, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Newcastle, Wolverhampton and York covering a combined area with a population of more than 18 million."
This is a regular complaint against the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ, but I think it's motivated by "London-envy". London, whether you like it or not (and I live in Scotland, where many don't) is the capital of the country and where a great deal of the news comes from. Would you prefer that the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ spent vast amounts of your license fee sending reporters out to the sticks to report on minority issues?
James, Glasgow
Regarding the story on the that inherited £12m. Perhaps the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ News website could have chosen better words than "...the tiny bitch was whisked away under an assumed name after receiving about 20 threats". Surely not jealousy I hear in the tone?
Stephen Ash, Cardiff
According to these the 'average family' has an average expenditure of £601.20 a week. This works out as £31,262.40 a year. But the stats claim the average annual income is £32,779 before tax. After tax and NI this will be (very) approximately £25,000. The 'average family' is clearly running at a loss. This can't be right surely?
Martin, Glasgow
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