Wolves memories, political warnings and a glimpse of Wednesbury Market in 1969

Thanks to true Wolves legend

I first started to watch the Wolves in the early 1970s. I went to a few games with my grandad to start with. We used to stand in the old Billy Wright stand by the scoreboard.

On Monday, August 10 I picked up a copy of the Express & Star and on the front cover was the sad news that Phil Parkes had passed away. Phil was a member of that team from the 1970s and I remember him playing in goal, what a goalkeeper he was. He will be missed by every Wolves fan.

Thanks for the memories. God Bless Phil.

B Millington, Wednesfield

Beware of the daylight fascists

Fascism used to creep about in the darkness of the night. A few years ago it broke out into the light, UKIP was born, Brexit triumphed, then another goose step to the right, Reform UK. This corroded the Conservative and Unionist Party of Great Britain who also lurched to the right. Now all these daylight fascist strut about, a deadly threat to us in the future.

Last time this occurred it led to World War Two, 70 million dead and the destruction of half the world.

Beware the daylight fascists and fight them at every opportunity.

Francis Biard, Stafford

So angry at dog cruelty case

An article showing the cruelty inflicted on a poor dog left me very, very angry.

How can people treat animals so badly? Don’t they realise that animals have feelings just like humans? The difference is that these poor souls have no voice.

Too often now, the suffering and cruelty inflicted on animals has become the norm, and it is on the rise. It needs to be stamped out. Report it and be their voice.

Thank goodness for the RSPCA, and for the vet who reported his concerns.

Judith Fisher, Tividale

Vulnerable to wildfire threat

The recent catastrophic wildfires are not so much due to climate change, but more to environmentalists who have fostered their "Green" theory, which has led to "rewilding" of good farmland, planting of grassed headlands of fields/scrub, and a ban on controlled burning of heather moorlands and stubble, that previously prevented the spread of fire if one occurred.

Also cutbacks by successive governments of the Auxiliary Fire Service, Civil Defence, and Royal Observer Corps, with sale of utterly dependable, simple to maintain, and all terrain capability, Green Goddess fire engines, because of their "High Emission", forgetting they only operated in emergencies with low mileage, have left us vulnerable to wildfires.

Unfortunately the fixation with Badgers, Bats, Newts, and Wildlife habitat, means that every summer will see a repeat of 2026.

WF Kerswell, Picklescott

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