A HIGH-ranking policeman has stated that Al-Qaeda terrorists are at large in this country.

Then, I read an ex-Taliban fighter has been granted asylum in Wales.

Israel, a country born out of Jewish immigration and conflict, has very strict rules on who it allows to settle permanently.

Why then, for the very same reason, national security should not Britain do likewise, especially after recent incidents in London and Manchester?

BERT HARDWICK, Queensway, Waddington, Clitheroe.