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It’s been six weeks since a car ploughed through the glass doors of Rotorua’s Urbano Bistro restaurant, seriously injuring Rotorua woman Sian Hapgood. The

It’s been six weeks since a car ploughed through the glass doors of Rotorua’s Urbano Bistro restaurant, seriously injuring Rotorua woman Sian Hapgood. The...

Plus: the problem with the new Coronation oath; tidal power in practice; roadside verges in bloom; and hot tubs during a hosepipe ban

SIR – President Volodymyr Zelensky’s admission that Ukraine will not join Nato is a major concession illustrating an uncomfortable fact that the West seems unprepared to admit – for all the stories of spirited resistance, Ukraine is inexorably being ground down by Russia.

SIR – Having voted for Boris Johnson all along, I think he now has to go, and sooner rather than later.

SIR – It has been reported that Lord Frost resigned because “he is exasperated with the high-spending regime, the obsession with hitting ‘net zero’ environmental targets and Covid vaccine passports”.

SIR – The NHS wants us to use 111 rather than 999.

Demonstrators protest outside Downing Street against the delay in easing of lockdown restrictions Credit: Barcroft Media SIR – What is the Latin for “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory”? Somehow we need to get through to the Prime Minister that extending lockdown is a catastrophic decision. More than half of voters may be happy with another month of restrictions, but that is because more than half are not significantly affected. Pubs, restaurants and shops have all been able to ope...

SIR – As a youngster I was taught that I would be innocent until proved guilty. Some years ago, the then Director of Public Prosecutions told the Crown Prosecution Service that those alleging crime should be called victims and believed by the police. This resulted in senior members of the public being charged on the word of a fantasist. We now have progressed to guilty as alleged until proved innocent. The Royal family and our Prime Minister are examples of this reversal of the presumption t...

15 March 2021 • 12:02am A well-wisher lays a bunch of flowers to honour Sarah Everard before the vigil at Clapham Common on Saturday night Credit: DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP SIR – Two wrongs do not make a right. The vigil for Sarah Everard at Clapham Common should not have taken place when Covid-19 is still rampant. However, the police response, which included tackling women to the ground and physically overpowering them, was equally wrong. The police were doing exactly what the women were prot...