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15:09 UK time, Monday, 5 January 2009

RE: Youngsters are more 'vulnerable' What fascinating insights will the Prince's Trust tell us next? That youngsters are generally "shorter"? Youngsters have less "experience"? Good to see how our charity money is being spent in these thrifty times.
Robert Phillips, Cardiff, UK

"Revived 45 heads for 60th birthday". Did this headline give anyone else an image of strange shrunken heads being revived by some Frankenstinian process for their 60th deathday?
M Ross, Lancaster, UK

This is nominative determinism; except that it's the wrong sort of problem on the line.
David, Romford

I don't know if any other Swedish speaker has commented on this, but the word Hoj (pronounced Hoy) is the Swedish slang word for bicycle. Congratulations to Sir Chris Hoy.
Vic Howard, Helsingborg, Sweden

"There are very few words sang at an evensong"? Really? I'm in a church choir, and you could have fooled me... (Okay, the words may be in Greek or Latin, but still.)
Susannah, Northampton

Am I the only one who finds the reference to sons in paragraph seven in this article a little disturbing?

Tim H, Southport, UK