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We’re letting out children down...

The letter from Martin Wicks (Sept 3) is right to raise the growing housing crisis problem in Britain today.

The housing shortage is particularly bad for the young generation looking for affordable homes at the cheaper end of the market.

The Right-to-Buy scheme has led to the sale of over 2 million council houses.

There can be no doubt that selling off council houses has added to the shortage of affordable homes.

It has been estimated that Britain needs to build a new home every five minutes day and night just to keep pace with the rising demand for affordable homes for the young generation.

Net migration is still running at 280,000 a year, this is like adding a City the size of Manchester every two years to our tiny island.

All these people need somewhere to live. This is totally irresponsible and crippling our infrastructure.

We are letting our children and grandchildren down all for the sake of cheap labour in order for big businesses to make more profit while diminishing our quality of life.

Martin Costello, Eldene, Swindon

He’ll be missed

I am not a great fan of Chris Evans as I find it irritating that he and other presenters talk over a lot of the music they are playing.

But when I heard the news yesterday that he is leaving the Radio 2 breakfast show in December I was disappointed that many people took to social media and the BBC’s own website to come out with arrogant and rude statements.

So why is that in this country success is knocked and met with derision and denigration? I know when I worked at Radio 2 in the early 90s in Bristol, the whole gambit of what the station was doing, as it was including “square music”, was not favoured by all.

But things changed, one has to respect the fact that Evans cultivated an audience of nine million weekly

He was paid a high salary and that seems to have been the bug-bare amongst certain people if you believe what the comments have been.

That appears to be a point of conjecture. I have mixed feelings about it. But who could replace Sir Terry Wogan? It will be interesting to see who the BBC chooses to replace Chris Evans.

Alan Thompson, Former BBC Radio 2 producer Arts and Jazz, Bristol and co-producer with Nigel Pearce of Teen Dreams programming, Swindon

Thank you for this fantastic book

Sheridan Parsons’ monumental book “Wootton Bassett in the Great War” was published in 2014 after more than a year’s research.

It’s taken me four years to get round to reading it.

Thank you Sheridan for providing more than a snapshot of the town and of the family lives and occupations of those who served, of those who died, of their parents and siblings, and of all other residents at that time.

As a migrant myself, I should not have been surprised that many of the 2,000 locals migrated in and out of the area in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Most men and many women had work. Few had jobs with GWR or in the Works. By and large a self-sufficient community. Not so now !

Another historic book is “Accrington Pals” by Andrew Jackson 2013.

Most of the original 700 who joined in 1914/15 were killed at the Somme but the Regiment lived on with new recruits. Just how important is the Centenary of Armistice Day ?

John Davies, Byron Avenue, Royal Wootton Bassett