WITH reference to the article concerning St George's Day (LET, April 24), when I was a boy, it was a school holiday.

Of course, in these days that would be deemed politically incorrect, or being too patriotic.

Our bureaucratic masters in Brussels would jump on the idea as not being in keeping with a federal vision.

D BULLEN (Mr), Albany Road, Blackburn.

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