Your letters

16:57 UK time, Tuesday, 4 December 2007

Is Brentwatch back? Am I the first to spot spurious use of Ricky Gervais? Do I win a prize?
James Dawkins, Reading

Re Random Stat (children owning gadgets worth >£500) doesn't that just mean that only 15% of children have their own PC? Hardly a picture of middle England living a lavish child centred life-style, since PCs are now the equivalent of slates and pencils.
Henri, Sidcup

Surely a rolling channel on digital televison telling people how to get television is both pointless and a waste of the airwaves. Then again I suppose this makes sense, the same description applies to quite a lot of the other channels currently available.
Chloe, Chelmsford

Call me a pedant if you like but the tropics cannot expand or contract as suggested in 'Tropics expand' as world warms. The tropics of Cancer and Capricorn are fixed and define the band north and south of the Equator where the Sun may be overhead at noon on one or more days during the year. The climate between the tropics may well vary but not their location.
Jeremy, Aylesbury

Murf (Monday's letters) if you think that Metro is a London paper, then I suggest that you may be guilty of the "bias towards the south" that you accuse the BBC of? According to their website "Metro is distributed in Bath, Birmingham, Bradford, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Coventry, Derby, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Newcastle, Wolverhampton and York covering a combined area with a population of more than 18 million."

This is a regular complaint against the BBC, but I think it's motivated by "London-envy". London, whether you like it or not (and I live in Scotland, where many don't) is the capital of the country and where a great deal of the news comes from. Would you prefer that the BBC spent vast amounts of your license fee sending reporters out to the sticks to report on minority issues?
James, Glasgow

Regarding the story on the death threats to the dog that inherited £12m. Perhaps the BBC News website could have chosen better words than "...the tiny bitch was whisked away under an assumed name after receiving about 20 threats". Surely not jealousy I hear in the tone?
Stephen Ash, Cardiff

According to these stats the 'average family' has an average expenditure of £601.20 a week. This works out as £31,262.40 a year. But the stats claim the average annual income is £32,779 before tax. After tax and NI this will be (very) approximately £25,000. The 'average family' is clearly running at a loss. This can't be right surely?
Martin, Glasgow