'Help us move towards a future where everyone with breast cancer lives' - Your Letters: September 3

Last year at 34, I was diagnosed with breast cancer, and my world changed overnight. Surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy were some of the toughest challenges I’ve ever faced, not only physically, but emotionally too.

Attending Breast Cancer Now’s Moving Forward course at the end of hospital treatment was a turning point and the friendships and support I found there reminded me just how powerful it is to share our stories.

That’s why this October I’ll be proudly joining the charity’s Wear It Pink for a celebration with friends and family, raising money for Breast Cancer Now’s life-saving research and life changing support services. I encourage you to join me, and throw on something pink at home, school, work or with friends.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK and no one should have to face it alone. Please join me on October 2. Sign up today at wearitpink.org/SignUp and help us move towards a future where everyone with breast cancer lives, and lives well.

Milou Katsikare, Breast Cancer Now

PROTESTERS LIKE KU KLUX KLAN

What sort of country are we becoming when we allow members of the public to dispense what they laughingly call justice? 

These people who are pictured and filmed causing trouble around immigrant hotels are acting like the Ku Klux Klan, faces covered causing damage and terrorizing people. 

What next? An immigrant hotel being set on fire and people losing their lives?

The weakness of our police and councils makes me shudder, someone is going to get hurt or worse.

Anyone around an immigrant hotel without a legitimate purpose should be immediately arrested. 

We don't want American style justice here and Farage is encouraging that sort of justice, in my opinion.

Roger Watts, West Midlands

BE PROUD TO DISPLAY OUR FLAG

Can anyone explain why flying the national flag of England or Britain within the confines of England or Britain is seen by some as racist or confrontational? Anyone who has ever been to USA will have noticed that every public building, post office and many private houses proudly fly their Stars and Stripes. The answer may be that Americans are still allowed to have pride in their country, while for English or British their pride has been outlawed by the Starmer regime.

It is actually the flying of flags representing banned terrorist organisations and the regular burning of English, British and Israeli flags on the streets of our cities that is the most sinister and disturbing. Donald Trump has just made it an offence punishable by 12 months in jail to burn American flag. We need to do the same, the British peoples famous tolerance is seen by many foreign incomers as a weakness, and they are right.

Chris Smith, Horsehay

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