'Are today’s youth too safe?' - Your Letters and find out who won the local 1974 Nurse of the Year area final in our picture from the archive

Time for sheep to lose phone

​Where are today’s rebels? Where are today’s ‘cool’ characters, those charismatic, enigmatic characters who seemed to abound in the days of my youth, the sixties and the seventies?

Have all the kids of today become ‘the sheep’ that were so despised and we were all frightened of becoming in my day?Far be it from me to try and tell anyone what to do, but it occurs to me, and I think it’s worth sharing, that what might be useful today and in the face of social media abuse, and bullying and young people seemingly glued to their screens as they walk down the street, sit on the bus or actually eat in a pub or a restaurant, is a clarion call! They need to wake up - perhaps.

What happened to that kid, that youth, who you would see walking down the street, their hands in their pockets, a spring in their step and an obvious burning curiosity about the actual world around them? Is this a dying or an already dead breed? I don’t see them anymore.

You need just one group of awakened, enlightened, charismatic young people to declare that social media, and all of its manifestations, and indeed the iPhone itself, has become passé and uncool and ‘for the sheep’ and you might just get a movement towards a new creative era and a re-energised youth and thus a more dynamic age!

Alan Jones, Halesowen

Is there care in place at home?

Are patients safe when they are sent home from hospital? Does the hospital make quite sure that they are, especially if they were brought in by ambulance? There are so many returned home to recover and improve and they go to an empty home, or one that has no one able to care for them, not just to receive and settle them initially, but to continue to care.

So many people need trained carers but very few get the job, or despite being qualified do only what is absolutely what is needed without any empathy. Those needing care need to feel that they are more than a body, but a real live human being needing someone to make sure the care is pleasurable for them.

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Farage panto joke not funny

We went to the excellent performance of Dick Whittington at the Theatre Severn Shrewsbury on Sunday afternoon with friends and children. This is year seven we have attended and enjoyed them all until now. When Brad introduced the Rat he stated his name was Nigel Farage. This is the last year I shall be attending. Why bring politics into the pantomime? That was a cheap shot. 

WG Thomas, Bridgnorth

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