Shortpoints DO you have a letter for Shortpoints? Why not use the special Shortpoints messageboard by clicking here? Remember to include your name and address WHY on earth would we need another Tesco in West Derby when there's already a huge Tesco just over a mile away in Old Swan? There's a Coop, a Kwik-Save and a Somer-field close by and Sainsbury's a mile away. How many supermarkets do you think we need? If it does go ahead I only hope that a lot more attention is paid to landscaping as the Old Swan Tesco which, apart from detrimentally altering the look of the area, has got to be the plainest, ugliest supermarket site I have seen, bar none. A bit of greenery would not go amiss. M.P.T., West Derby I SEE Knowsley council and the police are to make efforts to solve the yobbish behaviour problems in Stock-bridge Village. So what do they propose to do? Well, move them on, of course. The question that immediately springs to my mind is to where will they be moved, and the answer is obvious: to adjacent areas, where they will continue to behave in a yobbish manner and inflict terror on people. We are too soft with these hooligans and untill we come down on them and their parents the problem will continue to grow. Mr J. McCann, L14 I WAS thrilled to read about the National Museum and Centre for the Understanding of Transatlantic Slavery, your country's first museum dedicated to the slave trade (ECHO, October 5). National Museums Liverpool director David Fleming said that the exhibition would be an insight into the blight of racism. As an American, I hope our country soon follows suit with a similar slavery museum. So many white Americans are in denial of the devastating impact slavery and racism continues to have on America. A slavery museum in this great country is long, long overdue. Pamela A. Hairston, Washington DC REGARDING K. Bayley's letter about Basil Brush: Can we blame domestic violence on Punch beating the stuffing out of Judy with his stick then, or the parents that forced their children to witness such a scene? Please get a grip on reality; Basil is a talking fox, who wears clothes and bears no resemblance to a real animal. He makes children and adults laugh and my son certainly understands that pans are for cooking with and not attacking any creature, whether stuffed or live. Name and address supplied KEN Dodd has been entertaining the nation with his magnificient 'above the navel' humour for so long now, its astonishing he hasn't been nominated for a knighthood. What's the betting we see a Sir David Beckham before Ken even hangs up his 'tickling stick'. GM Netherton | 
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