'British adults consider playing with friends among their fondest childhood memories' - Your Letters: May 29

Play has been a fundamental part of childhood in the UK for generations – and new research shows that 72 per cent of British adults consider playing with friends among their fondest childhood memories.

However, for millions of children around the world today, it’s a very different situation. Extreme challenges such as conflict, poverty, child labour and early marriage are depriving children of the opportunity to play and experience joy in their lives.

That’s why Right To Play exists. We use the power of play to transform the lives of more than 4.7 million children every year, helping them to stay in school, heal from trauma and develop the critical life skills they need to thrive. Play is proven to be essential to children’s learning, development and well-being.

On June 11, we’ll be marking International Day of Play. This annual UN-recognised day highlights the vital importance of play for children and champions this basic right for every child. Find out more about the enormous benefits of play, and how you can support our life-changing work, by visiting righttoplay.org.uk.

Gillian McMahon, Executive Director, Right To Play UK

HELP NEEDED ON PANTO SCRIPT

I wonder if you or your readers can help me? I am trying to contact two men, or their friends or relatives, who lived in the Telford area in the late 80s/ early 90s. Colin Leach and David Vince wrote a pantomime Alice in Blunderland which I would like to stage this coming winter.

As the play was written within the last 70 years I need to get their permission – and pay royalty fees should they wish – and I would like to obtain a better print of the panto. I have only one battered copy which is missing a page.

According to the frontispiece the play was published by Take Two Creative Services of 28 Boscobel Close, Holmer Lake, Telford TF3 1QQ. This company no longer seems to exist.

I would be grateful for any leads your readers in the West Midlands can give me. I can be contacted at [email protected].

John McGrouther, Somerset

INJUSTICE IS A WARNING TO US

A man 'convicted' of murder has been released after 38 years. A new discovery from 2015 casts doubt on the evidence. So what say the pro hanging lobby, now?

Robert William White, West Midlands

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