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40 Daily Express Tuesday, July 30, 2019


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38 years ago (1981)
We celebrated the marriage
of Prince Charles and Lady
Diana Spencer showing the
newlyweds sharing a tender
moment on Buckingham
Palace balcony. Britons
enjoyed a national holiday
and crowds of 600,000 lined
the capital’s streets to watch
the royal procession, while
the global TV audience was
estimated at 750 million.

70 years ago (1949)
The British warship HMS
Amethyst escaped down
China’s Yangtze River
under the cover of
darkness after a three
month stand-off with
Chinese communists.
On April 20, the frigate had
been on her way from
Shanghai to Nanking when
she was fired on by the
People’s Liberation Army
triggering what became
known as the Amethyst
Incident.

53 years ago (1966)
England beat Germany 4-2 at
Wembley to clinch the World
Cup for the first time since the
competition began in 1930.
The Queen and Prince Philip
were among the 93,000
spectators who watched
striker Geoff Hurst score the
first hat-trick in a World Cup
final.

TODAY: Tuesday
July 30, 2019

ON THIS DAY


BIRTHDAYS


TODAY’S GIGGLE
How do you get a squirrel to
like you? Act like a nut!

Terminator star
Arnold
Schwarzen-
egger is 72.
He served two
terms as
Governor of
California.
Film-maker
Christopher
Nolan is 49.
He directed
blockbusters
Dunkirk and
Interstellar.
Friends star
Lisa Kudrow
is 56. She also
works behind
the camera.
Million Dollar
Baby actress
Hilary Swank
is 45. She
supports
animal rights.

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Letter of the day


Free-trade deal with US


should not be at any price


THE prospect of a free-trade
agreement with the US holds many
pluses for the UK but we should
ensure there is no appeasement by
our government resulting in lower
standards in food production and
animal welfare.
By their own actions it would
seem some US food products will
be of questionable quality, for
example the washing of chickens in
chlorine which we’re told is
necessary due to poor hygiene
standards of some producers.
We can also assume genetically
modified organisms will figure too.
If we have to accept this to secure
any kind of trade deal, I for one
have no wish to eat them. We must
disclose all details in the labelling.
Ron Clark,
Looe, Cornwall


Buccaneering Boris is


beginning to grow on me


AS someone who has never voted
Conservative and have never rated
Boris Johnson very highly as a
politician, I have to say that I am
somewhat surprised I have begun to
feel some degree of confidence in
his attitude towards securing Brexit.
It is only by keeping no-deal on
the table that the EU could ever
treat our desire to leave seriously.
Boris knows that, as do the
Remainers who have known all
along that without this bargaining
chip the EU held all the cards and
that we would not leave.
With the ball now in our court we
are at last negotiating on a level
playing field and a the EU are the
side with most to lose, we can
expect to see them running to us to
secure a deal to benefit both sides.
Terry Durrance,
Southport, Merseyside


After Brexit’s sorted, PM


should set about Labour


BORIS Johnson may appear to be
flamboyant, bizarre and even
unorthodox at times.
What he really is however, is
charged with a new vigour that has
not been since Margaret Thatcher.
He is reinvigorating a nation that
has seen democracy cast aside like
an old rag.
Whatever his style many
thousands who voted Leave from
Labour and other parties will join
him. Remainers who understand
how the EU has treated the UK
with nothing but disdain will also
back his cause.
After we leave Boris can then
complete the second part of his
mission and destroy the loser
Labour Marxists from the
opposition front benches.
Geoff Fawcett,
Workington, Cumbria


Ungrateful Macron will be


closing French farms down


PERHAPS Emmanuel Macron can
let French farmers and wine growers
know that, as part of France’s
no-deal preparation, its president
has threatened no trade if our
£39billion is not paid to the EU.
Does that mean that all French
wine and cheese will not be sold in
the UK? How many of those


AS Prime Minister, Theresa May did all she
could to get the best Brexit deal for the EU,
not us. She went thinking we were too daft to
realise what she was doing to us.
Now Boris Johnson is at the helm, I am
beginning to believe we actually will leave the
EU (“Boris beefs up no-deal Brexit plans”,
July 29).
The message now is that we are in charge,
we are divorcing the EU and we call the shots.
The EU must give major concessions to us,
otherwise we go and the EU doesn’t get a
single euro. Take it or leave it.
I believe Boris is the man who can be our
modern-day Churchill and help guide the
good ship Britannia into calmer waters.
Ashley Smith,
March, Cambs

businesses will be bankrupt within
12 months?
What an ungrateful nation the
French will be if they allow such a
threat is carried out. Fortunately, in
Boris we have a leader who will
give Macron a Chruchillian two-
finger salute. How dare a loyal and
supportive friend of France be
threatened in such a manner.
When I listened to our new Prime
Minister’s opening statement to the
Commons, for the first time in a
long time it was emotional to hear a
UK leader speaking up for our
country and its values
The doom-mongers should get on
board or get out of Boris’s way. He
may not achieve half of what he is
trying to do but it is heartwarming
to believe in a better future and to
be rid of the recent negativity.
Kevin Wight,
Reigate, Surrey

Hong Kong protest stirred
up by keyboard anarchists
LITTLE more than 22 years ago,
Hong Kong was handed back to the
Chinese and today we now have
people demonstrating illegally in
the former British colony.
Most demonstrators were either
not born or not of school age
in 1997. I am not a supporter of
the Chinese system but let’s
not pretend that young people are

demonstrating for democracy. This is
yet another social media-led
campaign by anarchists to get their
way via violence and civil
disobedience.
If the same demonstrations took
place in London it would rightly be
condemned by all sides.
Patrick Higgins,
Rainham, Kent

I wonder what planet Mr
Forsyth is living on?
I AM astounded by your columnist
Frederick Forsyth’s comments on
going to the Moon; it being a
complete waste of effort and money
(“A Moon landing costs billions and
is pointless”, July 26).
The Moon is littered with mineral
resources essential to our modern
world and which are becoming rarer
by the day on Earth.
Why do you think the Chinese,
along with others, are trying to get
there? There is silver, gold, lithium
and platinum there and all are
essential in modern electronics.
Kelvin Wilcocks,
Ashburton, Devon

Cameras are a prime part
of swelling council coffers
SO residents are now asking for
cameras to be installed in a bid to
help identify criminals and help

keep them safe. Surely they must
realise that the councils are much
too busy installing cameras to keep
us out of bus lanes, catch us doing a
mile over the speed limit and spot
us parking illegally so that they can
fine us to swell their coffers.
Ann Johnston,
London

If you act like a victim
you’ll be treated like one
FIRSTLY I’m 74. I am not now, nor
ever will be invisible. Your
“shocking expose” of how we treat
the elderly is patronising.
A 26-year-old cannot walk in the
shoes of someone 50 years older.
Act like a helpless victim and you
will become one. Had she not worn
the make-up and the garb but
behaved in the same way, she would
not have fared well either.
In any crowded place there are
always rude people and they don’t
just single out the elderly.
People will help if you have the
right attitude. My sister in law is 81,
walks with a stick and can charm
the birds from the trees.
She simply smiles disarmingly
looking the person in the eye and
says: “I’m deaf.” Folk scuttle to
help.
Valerie Walker,
Lincoln

May tried to


pull the wool


over our eyes


GOODBYE: Mrs May with EU bigwig Jean-Claude Juncker

WHILE I
commend the
young man for
his achievement, sadly I
believe he is the
exception to the rule
(“British gamer, 15,
wins a £1m Fortnite
fortune after mum bins
Xbox” July 29).
Eight hours a day is
an alarming amount of
time for a young person

to be locked into a
fantasy world.
Vital life practices
such as communicating
and interacting in
person as well as
spending time outdoors
are lost.
Prince Harry is right
to say gaming drains the
minds of the young.
Barry Collins,
Leicester

I’M really
pleased that
young Jaden
Ashman has proved
both his mother and
Prince Harry wrong by
bagging a whopping
£900,000 thanks to his
computer gaming skills.
That amount of
money is life-changing
and for it to be on offer
in the first place for what

seems such a trivial
pursuit shows firstly how
quickly the world is
moving on and secondly
how us old fuddy-
duddys need to get up to
speed with it.
The world of the
future belongs to the
Jadens and I hope he
spends his money wisely.
Alan Jarvis,
Stoke-on-Trent

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