Brian Blunt of Kensington was a little perplexed at repeated announcements at Central Station last weekend of “the next train to arrive at platform one does not stop. Please stand clear”, and pondered: “Considering platform one is a dead end, I was left wondering what would happen?”

“Never mind the Penguin Classics (C8),” says Rosemary Seam of Kempsey. “Our local hospital’s day surgery waiting room once sported a copy of Tolstoy’s War & Peace . Talk about patient patients.”

George Manojlovic of Mangerton reckons it’s not such a bad idea: “Martin Field, your dentist would be on a nice little earner if copies of War & Peace were left around the waiting room. Imagine how many visits it would take to get through that.”

While “the various incarnations of Carnation (C8)” have motivated An

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