Your Letters
16:00 UK time, Thursday, 3 January 2008
Insert box in Marsden report: "The last 24 hours have seen Britain at its best," PM Gordon Brown, "I had treatment in a pub." Have another one while you're about it, then.
Fred, Rotherham
Regarding today's Paper Monitor. Clearly the nation's news gathering organisations have been hit hard by the norovirus if they are having to send footballers' wives and girlfriends (WAGs) to cover news conferences!
A.N
Re: 100 things. If people did not know the contents of item 29 (The average duvet is home to 20,000 live dust mites) last year, it was because they did not read it the year before! The dateline on this story was Tuesday, 11 July 2006, so clearly does not qualify for this article. Kindly substitute another story which DOES qualify as something we didn't know last year (and ditto for any other stories which have similarly slipped through a time warp).
Pam Birdsall, Byfield
The daily mini-quiz reports that fans reach an average of 129.2 decibels. You can buy personal alarms which reach 130 decibels, and their main purpose is to put off attackers. No wonder Sunderland are doing so badly at the moment.
Chris Kenny, Southampton, England
With regards to fans being the loudest, it is only fair to point out that it is usually screams of anguish rather than cheering.
Dave Williams, Not Sunderland
Personally Kip (Wednesday's letters), I'm waiting for year of the rat-related headlines so I can get my stoat.
Sam, France
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