The 9m lost ‘generation’ since 1967 Abortion Act

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Kathy Cook, former athlete Steve McClaren, football manager, Rob Brydon, actor/comedian, Bobby Cannavale, actor, Christina Hendricks, actress, SINCE the Abortion Act introduced by David Steel on October 27, 1967, came into being, a staggering nine million (approximately 500 a day) of our population has been extinguished.

The population is approximately equivalent to Scotland and Wales combined.

It can be easily deduced that had they been alive today there would be no reason to have increased the retirement age. How many potential doctors, scientists, inventors, nurses and others have we lost in that number?

The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) is a body whose aim is to help protect children and mothers needing help.

There is a confidential helpline available. Please do not hesitate to call ARCH on 0845 603 8501. Kelly on his retirement as a window cleaner after a stint of 50 years (Examiner, April 30).

It seems almost that long since I last spoke to him.

Richard and his family were neighbours of ours at the top of Alandale Road, Bradley, on what was then a newly built estate.

Rising at the crack of dawn, Richard was probably the only one on the block who was up early enough to greet the milkman.

These were the days when pints were delivered direct to your doorstep every morning.

An hour or so later when the town centre was coming alive as the mainstream workforce were piling off the buses into John William Street, Richard had already squeezed his leather cloth out dozens of times.

He seemed to be at it wind, rain or shine.

For him, the ever-changing window displays, must have been uncannily like that shop in the film adaption of HG Wells’s The Time Machine.

The mention of old stores brought back memories of the days when the ‘window to watch’ was John Collier, and March the Taylors ‘dressed you well’ so said the advertisements.

There was also Harry Fenton’s, Mister Terry’s, Ray Allen, C&A and many more; and who could forget, ‘the wonder of’ Woolworths, a store which sold everything and was known affectionately as ‘Woollies.’ Good luck to Richard. I would imagine that at his retirement bash he would be peering through glass of a different kind. The one that is regularly wet on the inside.