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17:05 UK time, Tuesday, 24 April 2007

The 'Kryptonite' discovered in mine story is ridiculous. It says: "The new mineral does not contain fluorine (which it does in the film) and is white rather than green but, in all other respects, the chemistry matches that for the rock containing kryptonite." This is like saying: "Oxygen does not contain Hydrogen, and is a gas rather than a liquid but, in all other respects, the chemistry matches that for water."
Andy Nichols, London

Re the Lost World prehistoric village discovered under the North Sea. Did the inhabitants blame *that* on Global Warming?
Mike Harper, Devon, UK

Can I flag up a porridge-watch alert on your very own BBC news site in this story: Centenarian celebrates with £25k. It's good to see that porridge is still a ticket to long life and great wealth.
Michael, Washington DC USA

Greetings to the pedants specialised in colloquial French. Re: the man who cut off his penis in a London restaurant. He couldn't have found a better place, could he?!
Aurore, Brussels, Belgium

Paper Monitor asks if it's wrong to buy a newspaper solely for the giveaway. Surely if you're doing that, you're buying the item and getting a giveaway newspaper with it?
John R, London

If Paper Monitor were to start giving away freebies, what would he/she give away & how would he/she psychoanalyse the freebie du jour?
Stella Alvarez, oop north

Weaker pupils 'need more help'. Does this win a prize for most obvious headline of the week?
Jonathan Riches, Tewkesbury, UK

Inspired by Monday's 25th anniversary of the ZX Spectrum, I felt compelled to write the following Speccy based program...
10 BORDER 0 : PAPER 0 : INK 7 : BRIGHT 1
20 LET i = 0
30 FOR f = 1 TO 24
40 LET i = i + 1
50 IF i = 8 THEN LET i=1
60 INK i
70 PRINT "The Monitor is brilliant!"
80 NEXT f
90 PAUSE 0
Feel free to dust off the 1980s technology and get it working.

Martin, High Wycombe, UK