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Time to save the Wales

QUASHING Russia and Slovakia will be Wales' primary objectives this month in the European Football Championship (Euros 16).

Such is our high regard for England that I hope a 0-0 draw will be sufficient for both home nations to progress beyond ignominious failure at the group stage.

Sadly a dream Wales v England final is pie in the sky but for me everything is a bonus because this is Wales' first major tournament since 1958.

Out of interest, does anyone else remember Sweden '58 well?

It is a fitting end to my lifelong globetrotting love affair with Wales and the Beautiful Game. Wish me well for France and hope Wales can score as many goals as England in the tournament!

Wales v England from Lens on June 16 will grip the United Kingdom – even the Scots will be watching.

Ironically, the groups are immediately followed by the EU referendum.

Remain or leave is the big question.

What I voted for in 1972 is now meaningless history.

Fools have been scaremongering for months. Now it is time to vote with our hearts and minds, not cop out and abstain from this vital decision.

Muhammad Ali (1942-2016) is "The Greatest". In this racist world it is strange how a gifted black boxer succeeded in bringing people together. No-one forgets the Rumble in the Jungle or the Thrilla in Manila. I saw the late Sir Henry Cooper deck young Ali in 1963. I also saw Ali, then stricken with Parkinsons disease, open the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996. Incredibly emotional for all of us. Ali was not invincible but he was beautiful and as he always used to say, very pretty.

A REEVE

Okus Road Old Town, Swindon

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We need true facts

WILL people like Chris Watts stop telling us what might happen if we leave the EU?

We need to know true facts not maybes, which nobody knows.

If we do come out it will be up to everyone here to make it work, not just rely on the Government to do all the deciding.

People like Mr Watts are just guessing on what might happen.

'Likely to, maybe, might stop, could be' and all other words that mean they don’t know.

We have already lost many factories and industries and thousands of jobs since being in the EU so it can’t get much worse.

If we vote out, all the money saved from paying the EU every year should be put to good use to where it’s needed here, and then hopefully the unions won't start strikes again and ruin everything.

J LAWRENCE

Swindon

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Membership fees

SO ANGELA Merkel wants Britain to stay in the EU?

I bet she does. If we come out, so does our money and what other country would pay the obscene amount of money that we pay every day to belong to such a club.

L TOWNSEND

Redcliffe Street, Rodbourne, Swindon

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Support the exchange

READERS, sign a petition to keep the London Stock Exchange out of foreign hands. Time is short, please spread the word.

Go to the UK Government and Parliament petition website then under open petitions enter the takeover of the London Stock Exchange to the CMA.

FE SHARPE, Plymouth