LETTERS

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I don’t understand Phil

Twenty seven years ago, when Phillip Schofield got married, homosexuality was legal and had been for some years (“I’m proud of Dad, says Phil’s girl”, February

9), so I don’t understand why he felt he should suppress his sexuality.

I came out in the 1970s to family and friends because I didn’t care to live a so-called “normal” life, even though I was born and raised in a North-east coal mining community.

There was nothing shameful about being openly gay, even in the early 1990s, especially in the celebrity world.

Phillip Schofield is fortunate to receive support from his wife and children, but it would have been less traumatic for him to come out in the early 1990s than it was for me in the 1970s.

Clifford Chambers, Blackpool

Acid is too easy to buy

Your article reveals the worrying frequency of acid attacks in this country (“Acid attacks carried out every 3 days”, February 9), but it is so easy to buy acid.

In Poundland if I buy paracetamol or ibuprofen the assistant has to check my age and clear me at the till.

However, if I buy oven cleaner, which is just as dangerous, I can just sail through the till without any check.

Anyone can buy acid and no one checks them. Does this seem right?

Ann Johnston, Wandsworth, London

Make idiots pay up

Once again we see idiots causing possible loss of life to others due to their selfishness and stupidity.

The Hastings lifeboat was launched to rescue a stupid surfer in the sea.the lifeboat and crew could have faced death when their boat almost capsized in Storm

Ciara and a stupid couple were seen sitting on Blackpool seafront in the heart of the storm with 30ft waves a few yards away.

We have ill-equipped climbers and hikers getting stuck on mountains knowing full well the approaching conditions.

The people who do these idiotic things risk the lives of volunteers and I believe they should be made to pay the full cost of attempts to rescue them.

Mike Cook, Poole, Dorset

We are right to deport

Our prisons are full of foreign criminals and I think we should have the right to deport any person who has come to our country and committed a serious crime, no matter what country they have come from or what colour they are.we have enough of our own criminals.

I am sick of these so-called human rights people who are protesting about the criminals who are being deported to Jamaica.

They should be thinking about the victims and their families who have suffered because of these criminals.

The reason I voted to leave the EU was because of freedom of movement, which meant we didn’t know who was coming into this country.

Rose Mercer, Liverpool

Electric sparks trouble

Why does nobody point out the snags with the introduction of electric cars across the board (“Gearing up for the switch to electric”, February 9)?

Picture a terraced street with 30 houses, all with a cable coming out to a car parked in the road because there are no driveways.

It would be a nightmare for pedestrians, prams, wheelchairs etc.

I used to live in such a street and it was terrible for parking. Half the time you could not park outside your own home, so charging would be impossible.

A lot of your readers will be familiar with this scene.

It’s not scaremongering, it’s what will actually happen if you ban hybrids.

Derek Edge, Macclesfield, Cheshire

Quality with no whining

I fully agree with Frank Allen (Letters, February 9), on the pathetic state of the Premier League and all of a sudden Liverpool seeming to call all the shots on how it should be run.

In 1981 Ipswich Town won the UEFA Cup, got to the semi-finals of the FA Cup and were runners-up in the old Division One.they played 66 games that year on some pretty churned-up pitches through the winter months and Russell Osman played every single game.

Did they moan? They loved entertaining and playing football for a pittance in those days. I might add the top-flight teams still fielded a full side for the FA Cup because it was the most famous cup on the planet.

I had respect for Jurgen Klopp when he came over but sadly not any more.

Andy Dinnage, Brixworth, Northamptonshire