SIR – It saddens me to see what this country has become. All over the world people are being blown up and our troops are being killed serving this country. Meanwhile, back at home, someone commits the most heinous of crimes – they abbreviate the word Pakistani and use the dreaded ‘p’ word.

A Sikh police officer has been awarded £10,000 (of taxpayer’s money again) in compensation after being told to remove his turban during a training exercise. What sort of officer would he have made anyway? Our police are verbally abused, spat at, vomited on and punched as part of the job. Our grandfathers went through hell in the trenches wading in mud with bullets flying over their heads, then to be told ‘over the top to your death.’ What would they have thought of these modern-day whingers? Please, please grow up and get a life.

D Pittam
Droitwich.