So many factors to be considered over Brexit

I’m glad the university is generally building things that are pleasing on the eye. It makes our town look a bit more modern rather than a dump! Also it will attract more students to the town which again will improve the town as a whole. Our town is far from perfect, but a dump? Give your head a shake and take a better look round pal. lbert Hall, actor, Sir Tim Rice, lyricist Roland Emmerich, film director, Mackenzie Phillips, actress, Eddie Irvine, former racing driver Steve Brookstein, singer, Eve, rapper and producer, REGARDING David Griffiths’ defence of Barry Sheerman’s assertions about the relationship between education and the ‘Brexit’ vote (Feedback, Nov 6).

He chooses a strange source to support his argument - The Telegraph: ‘The Brexit vote correlating with areas of people with no education.’ Where are these places? Most of the places I’ve been to have schools.

Secondly, perhaps Mr Sheerman was simply being descriptive rather than analytical, which isn’t particularly useful in terms of explanation.

I’ll reiterate: If the number of people in receipt of Higher Education circa 1970 was 8.4% and in 2000 was 31% and growing, why the remain vote in 1975 and the recent leave vote? Possibly some other factors to consider. sacrifice made by these young men, the British state still stigmatises them as terrorists.

Thousands of Kurdish men and women have died in this struggle for the defence of the whole of humanity.

Again, journalists have praised their efforts and informed public opinion acknowledges the debt that we in the UK and Europe owe to Kurds. But what is the response of the UK government ?

The Kurds of Iraq have been abandoned and their aspirations for their own state ignored in order to appease the governments of Iraq and Turkey.

The Kurds of Syria, now that Daesh is almost defeated, expect to be similarly betrayed.

Turkey, a Nato member, is building up its forces for an attack on Kurdish communities in Northern Syria without any protest from the UK government.

The claim by Turkey that the YPG is a ‘terrorist’ organisation goes unchallenged. The YPG’s sister organisation, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), is already on the UK and EU terrorism list, despite that fact that it has made numerous attempts to achieve peace and renounced violence against civilians.

It is time the Kurds had a homeland of their own, run under a system of their own choice, instead of being subject to state powers who seek to oppress them and deny them their identity. In the interests of justice the UK government must stand with the Kurds, even if it means upsetting the Turkish and Iraqi governments.

If it doesn’t, that is an insult to the memory not only of all the Kurds who have died, but of real British heroes like Jac Holmes. use of air weapons, many pets have also been their unfortunate victims.

Cats Protection’s air gun licensing petition has already received over 76,000 signatures and we would like to thank all of those who have signed the petition.

Cats receive life-changing injuries from air guns such as limb amputation or loss of an eye. A 2016 Cats Protection survey of vets found that 46% of reported incidents result in fatalities.

We welcome the government’s intention to review the regulation of air weapons licensing.

We are asking the government to licence air guns in England and Wales, bringing us in line with Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Our monitoring shows nearly four cats a week are reported as killed or injured by an air gun in the UK – the actual figure is higher as many remain unreported.

We would like to encourage those who haven’t signed up to show their support by going to our website: www.cats.org.uk/ airgunspetition