Reader's Letter Of The Day

From The Metro, page 18, short and sweet:

Linda, you ask why MPs aren't fussed about the privatisation of public services - they're on the boards of the companies that get given public services to run.

Vanessa, London.

I don't know why this is front page news, though:

Young women who copy the lavish spending of their celebrity idols are spiralling into uncontrollable debt at twice the rate of men their age.

High-spenders aged 18 to 24 mimicking the likes of twice-bankrupt Kerry Katona are most likely to live way beyond their means, official figures show.