Missing themes from Olympics

From: Linda Heeley, Pennine Way, Scissett, Huddersfield.

IT is delightful that Danny Boyle has decided to celebrate this “green and pleasant land” as the theme for the opening ceremony of the Olympics, even including clouds.

To make it a more realistic modern British landscape: why not include a few wind turbines; stick up planning notices for inappropriate industrial units; add a housing estate with loads of “for sale” notices, and for good measure allow someone to put in an open-cast mine?

From: Max Nottingham, St Faith’s Street, Lincoln.

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DANNY Boyle’s opening theme for our Olympics is all right for starters. But he should have made reference to millions of city dwellers with detached, semi-detached and terraced houses.

Also, reference could have been made to high unemployment; our love of comedy; TV soaps; pets; pageantry; the seaside and binge drinking.

Tell it how it is. A Sunday suit presentation will not fool locals or foreign visitors.

Falklands oil must be for UK

From: David Quarrie, Lynden Way, Holgate, York.

WE must not let the Falkland Islands be given over to Argentina nor anyone else (David Howell, Yorkshire Post, June 15).

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Even if the British folk living on those islands were willing to cede power and control over to Argentina, the British government should keep the islands as sovereign British territory.

It is very likely that there is a large stock of oil in that area, and this country needs unrestricted access to it.

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