My daughter has become an avid fan of the magazine – I even got her club membership recently but both of us are feeling a bit, well more than a bit ripped off, we’re about to jump ship.

First there’s the price of the magazine. We’re feeling like Dennis has become a hoodie and is robbing us blind weekly.

We traipse to the papershop religiously to pick up a copy – the little jokes on each page are fun, the comic strips still raise a laugh, so it’s a nice ritual – but what’s going on with the cover price? The cost is spiralling out of control – how much will it be next year?

I coughed up yet for this week’s Beano magazine and was really shocked at the price.
‘£1.35?’ I exclaimed in the newsagent shop as I looked at my daughter – mirroring my raised eyebrows…even she, the budding shopaholic, was surprised.

‘Yes, it’s gone up again, but you get free toys.’ said the lady behind the counter.

‘We don’t want any more cheap plastic toys – aren’t we meant to be saving the planet?’

She smiled, I handed over the cash.

I’m not happy about this. I’m not harking back to my youth here but the Beano was 85p not so long ago and then when it went up to 99p I was surprised. Then it went up to £1.25 which I thought was a bit shocking. So this last price hike has left me a bit annoyed. We have a magazine with bags of toys every week that we really don’t want. If I wanted to buy my daughter toys, I’d go to a toyshop not a newsagent. D C Thomson – please listen.

Oh, and Beano Club membership – yes we got the great joining gifts, which included a blow up chair and an incredibly funny radio. But Miniminx has not received any email newsletters, as promised on a monthly basis – so yet again, we’re coughing up for plastic goods. That’s not what we signed up for.

Thanks Dennis – it’s a case of take the money and run here isn’t it?