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What do they expect?

Margaret Lymer, 64, and Eleanor Hamilton, 47, take out their five dogs and three others belonging to a disabled friend every day.

But council bosses at Kingsclere parish, Hampshire, have told the mother and daughter they can take out only three dogs at a time or they face a £30 fine – amid claims that joggers have been bitten.

Mrs Lymer said: “I’m not sure what they expect us to do – walk some of the dogs and then go out again with the rest?”

Daily Mail (Francis Harvey)

Standards of penmanship

I was at school in the 1960s with a boy who had lost both arms in an accident. He wrote neatly by holding the pen in his mouth. But he found that this method left the paper too close to read comfortably, so he learned how to hold the pen in a hook of one of his artificial arms. The result was perfectly presentable.

The problem at schools now is not one of technique but instilling standards.

Letter in the Daily Telegraph (Tim Symonds)

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