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I would like to walk into Scotland Yard and charge Transport Minister Ernest Marples with obtaining money by false pretences because I think the Tory government has made the British motorist the victim of the biggest confidence trick ever attempted. I’m referring to the Road Fund licence. The government receives £700,000,000 a year from motorists, but only a small fraction of this money is spent on roads. Where is the money going? We deserve to know. - Pat Moss, Britain’s leading female driver

Please use your influence with the producers of Fireball XL5 to cut out the horror creeping into it. The ghoulish puppets and violence surrounding Steve Zodiac’s exploits are terrifying. - Mrs Margaret Longmuir, Chiswick.

If you are entertaining at home, throw a paté party. The thing now is to serve seven varieties of paté on toast squares or small wafer biscuits. Paté is easily available, fresh or tinned.

A mallard duck walked into a police station in Grantham, Lincolnshire and laid an egg. The police handed the mallard and egg to the RSPCA.

Television highlights: Chess Masterpieces. Bob Monkhouse. Space Patrol.

Radio highlights: Adam Faith. Eleventh Safari Rally of East Africa.

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