I AM writing to express my deep sympathy with Ursula and Huw Edwards and their family and outrage at the shocking attack on their home on June 17 which you described last week.
As someone who experienced the last war as a teenager, with brothers and sisters in the armed forces and refugees from nazism in our home, I remember vividly the conviction we all had that the goal of the struggle was to make the world safe for freedom, tolerance and democracy and Europe a place where we could live with our neighbours in peace and friendship.
Now, in our own country, we find these values threatened by a racist xenophobia all too close to the attitudes which gave birth to nazism.
Germans, too, suffered in Hitler's concentration camps, yet half a century later some national newspapers still nurture a mindless undercurrent of anti-German feeling which encourages young people in these disgraceful acts. When will we learn?
Chris Layton
44 Copperfields
Horrabridge