Thoughts on vaping in public - your letters, plus when Wolves and Shrewsbury crossed paths in a picture from the archive

Vapes put on a toxic display

I'm not pontificating. I'm Just observing. If you want to smoke, smoke, it's up to you and it's your right so I'm not here to get into an anti-smoking pulpit.

No, what was brought home to me as I entered the supermarket a few days ago was the volume of unwanted stuff which enters lungs. The thing about vapes is that you can actually see fairly clearly the extent of nicotine etc taken into lungs by the true smoker. As I was passing, the young woman lounging at the entrance, exhaled her vape. The extent of the cloud extended right across the entrance.

Alan M Etheridge, Midlands

Put us on the weather map

Following on from Mr Chris Smith’s letter of January 3. I have a complaint and have written/emailed the BBC without reply. My issue is the BBC weather forecast. On their on screen chart it states Cardiff, Ireland, London (of course), and Aberdeen. Well there's a little village called the West Midlands that never gets mentioned.

Also the stand up comedian reading the weather states the above plus the South East and South West – never the West Midlands.

And you would think ITV would mention the Midlands. Both often get it wrong anyway.

So my weather forecast is when I open the curtains!

Jeff Ryland, Midlands

Don’t play at being homeless

These gambits of living rough for charity are an insult to the homeless. 

It may be slightly uncomfortable, but now he'll be warm, dry, clean, and fed. Not so the homeless. 

Play-acting being homeless carries none of the stress of not knowing where to get a meal, or where to sleep or what there might be to use as a blanket. Or what to wear or how to bathe. Or worst of all, the pain of being alone with all the problems.

Gerry Boekema, Toronto, Canada

Store behaviour is just appalling

The behaviour of some people in my local supermarket before Christmas can only be described as disgraceful. People blasting horns at each other on the car park.

I witnessed unnecessary rudeness to staff who were working very hard. One incident a mature man pushed his trolley into a display of oranges deliberate, this very rude man then launched a torrent of abuse at the young assistant trying to help.

If this man is reading this letter your behaviour was unacceptable, and should of been dealt with by the police.

Such behaviour seems to be on the rise, and seems to have got worse with the new developments in Shropshire, and the influx of people from cities.

David Young, Sheriffhales

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