One Cenotaph is all the UK needs

I WAS amazed when the Chancellor announced that £1 million of taxpayers’ money will pay for a memorial to Muslims who died in the two world wars.

Mr Hunt should look out of his limousine window when he is next being chauffeured down whitehall, for there in the middle of the road is a monument to ‘The Glorious Dead’ — all our dead, not just those of one religion.

Does this mean more millions will be spent on memorials to Hindus, Buddhists and Jews?

No, of course not. we have the Cenotaph and that is the only monument we need.

STEPHEN O’SULLIVAN, Debenham, Suffolk.

Shops under siege

I AM in my 70s and have never been so depressed about the total apathy shown by the Government, police and courts towards the awful crimewave of shoplifting and assaults on shop staff.

shops in several streets near where I live have been targeted continually, leaving staff badly traumatised. with the rise in serious violence, some live in fear.

Nothing is being done to protect these hardworking people. surely that cannot continue.

GRAHAM WRIGHT, london e11.

Hugs and misses

LIKE Mrs E. Haworth (Letters), I watched the Bert Trautmann biopic The Keeper and fully agree about the swearing. another mistake was characters ‘manhugging’. There were no man-hugs back then; it was all handshakes or a slap on the back.

MICHAEL A. COX, harlow, essex.

Toad rescue

I WAS disappointed by Richard Littlejohn’s mockery of road signs depicting ‘giant frogs’ (Mail).

I have worked for years as a volunteer and co- ordinator helping migrating toads cross roads to reach their spawning ponds. It is vital work, as toad populations in the UK have plummeted in the past 30 years.

The signs in question have nothing to do with oversexed frogs but warn drivers of toads. These vulnerable creatures cross roads on warm, damp nights in February and March. The signs also make drivers aware that volunteers may be helping toads safely across. Perhaps Mr Littlejohn would like to join us on a dark, wet road one night.

Ignorance about the decline of toads contributes to what may be the eventual extinction of this wonderful species in the UK.

JOHN BURGESS, vines cross & cowbeech toad crossing patrol manager, Old heathfield, e. Sussex.

Trashy fashion

WHAT possessed some actresses attending the Louis Vuitton show in Paris (Mail) to wear creations that looked as if they had been pulled out of the nearest waste clothing bank?

I couldn’t stop laughing.

JENNIFER A. TAYLOR, hemel hempstead, herts.

Worst film

NO, NO, No, Norman wanstall ( Letters). The worst film of recent decades has to be Police academy: Mission To Moscow.

I took my daughter, now 41, to see it as a 14th birthday treat while on holiday and have never set foot in a cinema since.

PETE WILLIAMS, hayes, middx.

Plane stupid

THE RAF intends to retire 30 Typhoon jets five years early because it would cost £300 million to upgrade them. Yet the Government spends £15 million a day on keeping migrants in hotels, so just three weeks of accommodation costs could keep these ‘quick reaction’ aircraft flying.

If we are not going to use the Typhoons, can’t we at least send them to Ukraine?

GUY JENKINSON, louth, lincs.

Miserable soaps

I AM an avid watcher of TV soaps and appreciate the often fine acting and good storylines.

Unfortunately, all we seem to get now are serious medical problems and depressing tales of people suffering and dying.

we must be educated about medical matters, it seems. Recently, it’s been mental health (EastEnders), motor neurone disease (Coronation street) and breast cancer ( Emmerdale), although such subjects are not what drew us to soaps.

I suggest some other platform is used to communicate this information. Please restore our light, amusing entertainment.

PATRICIA NASH, poole, Dorset.

MAIL TV critic Christopher stevens summed up Michael sheen’s The way perfectly: antiEnglish racism from a welsh socialist madman.

William Smith, carlisle.

Revved-up Jos

JOS VERSTAPPEN should stop having childish tantrums, babysitting his adult son and being a nasty piece of grit in the very smooth Red Bull ointment.

He is not the owner, so he should retire to his allotment shed and leave the adults to continue to run the most successful F1 team of modern times.

B. lack, Banbury, Oxon.

Potts shot

CAN I just confirm that it is not me who is appearing on Celebrity Big Brother. I can only imagine it is an imposter who thinks his celebrity will be enhanced by using my name. His secret is out.

DAVID POTTS, leyburn, n. yorks.

Swift response

IT SEEMS to me that the key to getting a letter in the Daily Mail is to mention Taylor swift.

It worked for me on February 27, then again on March 5. so let’s see what happens with this one.

JAMES ADAMS, retford, notts.