'Donating unwanted pets to feed zoo's predators prompts a question...' - Your Letters: August 19

Peter Rhodes' mention of Aalborg Zoo asking the public to donate unwanted pets in order to feed the zoo's predators prompts a question. Is the method by which donated animals are "gently euthanised" the same as that used when frogs are "lightly killed" for Monty Python's Crunchy Frog in their Whizzo Quality Assortment.

Trevor Howard, Wolverhampton

FORD TRANSIT'S TURKISH DEAL 

Its the 60th anniversary of the iconic Ford Transit van.

Now, anyone that thought being in the EU was a good idea should consider this. Apparently the EU gave Ford an £80 million loan to move Transit production from Great Britain to Turkey, thus closing down the British transit manufacturing in 2013. Think about this carefully. Great Britain was in the EU at the time, but Turkey still is not in the EU, so why would the EU support loss of jobs in a EU country to a non EU country?

Now that we have escaped from the we could start to declare than only Ford Transits made in Great Britain can actually be called Transit vans.

Gordon Edward Fanthom, Swindon

ANOTHER DAY OF REPEAT, REPEAT

​It’s getting on for ten

I should be getting up

I’ll get up and what then?

I suppose I’ll have another cup

Of coffee, sit in front of the tele

Listen to the inane tripe

That repeats, repeats, repeats

See how the fat jabs are getting on

See what the trans issues are today

How many boats have arrived

What Starmer’s going to ‘stamp out’ today

He couldn’t stamp out a lighted match!

Mind you, he seems to be stamping out free speech well enough

So, what can you say?

Alan Jones, Halesowen

INCENTIVES ARE SIMPLY TOO GREAT

Is our Home Secretary so detached from reality, that she thinks fast tracking asylum applicants will solve the problem? The incentives are "too good" – accommodation, free handouts and medical care etc. The only way is to make them see the money they pay for a seat on the boat wont get them what they want. Put them into tents in fenced camps, we have hundreds of small islands to do this. Charity clothes and food vouchers, see what they will make of that.

B Ellis, Leominster

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