Online voices

STORY:

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said he is “hopeful” people will be able to go abroad this summer - but warned there are no guarantees. Do you have a holiday abroad booked for later in the year, or are you planning a staycation?

Frank Whitford: I'm booked for September plenty of people went away last year, so I booked in December. A week before the government advised not to book. It's all refundable if it's cancelled anyway so why worry.

Mandi Wells: Not risking it. Don’t want the hassle with masks and quarantine on return. Will wait til next year.

Julie Johnson Baker: Florida.

Kathy E Huggins Clark: Going to thialand but not until later.

Lisa Dobbs: Got 2 booked.

Sellers Davison: No way!

Glyn Dixon: Too right Bring them on.

STORY:

ITV has announced that the presenter and journalist Piers Morgan was leaving the news programme.

Shaun Sidney:

Love him or hate him. Hats off to the man he held our government to rights over the pandemic and didn’t brush it under the carpet like other channels. He wanted whats right for the people.

Muriel Munro Shaw:

Why for not letting others speak?

Cait McMullen:

I loved Piers until this week, well and truly shown his true colours!

Charlotte Jane StückJames:

Think this is disgusting. I haven’t always agreed with

Piers, I imagine most people have disagreed with him at some point. But he ‘decided to leave’ after a meeting with ITV, effectively sounds like leave or your sacked.

This undermines basic rights to free speech and is tantamount to the censorship we expect in countries like China. Whether you agree with him or not, to see him have to leave over his views is stepping over a line to censorship I don’t think any of us with sense want to go down. ITV should have to answer for their blatant censorship xx