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SIR – You report on the two women who were fined £200 by Derbyshire police after driving into the countryside for a walk with cups of coffee.
The case is now under review – but should such excessive enforcement occur again, the consequences for policing by consent and the public’s respect for the police are likely to be negative. A degree of common sense must be applied.
Phil Coutie
SIR – Here in a Derby suburb on the edge of a local park, there is a stall selling coffee and soup and attracting large groups, yet there has not been a policeman in sight.
Simon Morpuss
SIR – I believe that if the storming of the United States Capitol had been conducted by people of colour, or by certain religious groups, the intervention of the security authorities would likely have been much stronger, possibly resulting in many more casualties. A sad reflection.
Graham Andrew
SIR – How ironic that the people who said they would “respect the result” of the biggest democratic vote in British history are now surprised that their disease has been exported to America.
The world looked on horrified for three years as Tony Blair, Gina Miller, Sir Keir Starmer and John Bercow attempted to obstruct the democratic will of the British people – publicised and nourished by the obsessive daily media broadcasts from Parliament Square.
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Artist Glenn Badham and his wife Nikki are keen ballroom dancers.
A gifted Harborough artist is drawing up plans for the best year of his professional career as he reaches for the stars.
Glenn Badham, 48, of Husbands Bosworth, near Market Harborough, is racing up through the gears as he targets new landmarks this year after a supercharged 2020.
Also a talented ballroom dancer, Glenn said: “I’m thrilled with how the last 12 months have gone and now I’m really looking to kick on.
“The sky is the limit!”
Talking of which he was shortlisted for a wildcard place in the Sky Landscape Artist of the Year TV show last August.
Family and friends of Leicestershire crash victim still holding out hope for answers ten years on from his tragic death
The driver of a car which left the scene of the collision which killed Dean Spalding has never been traced
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Endless summer - The late Dean Spillo Spalding (top) pictured with his Birstall mates as a teenager, including Kevin Unitt (far left)
The family and friends of a young man who died in a car accident say they are still holding out hope for answers ten years on from his tragic death.
Dean Spalding, a warehouse worker living in Lutterworth at the time, was just 27 when he was killed in a collision near Husbands Bosworth in 2010.