I APPLAUD Burnley College for making a stand on security over headgear and in my opinion it is high time other institutions with security cameras made the same decision – hospitals, airports, schools, banks, building societies etc.

What good are these cameras and identity tags when people are allowed to walk through with their faces covered? It beggars belief that it was ever allowed.

When the first Pakistan people arrived here in England, approximately 50 years ago, it was not a problem.

This Muslim fashion of dress seems to have escalated since the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

I do not agree that individuals should be able to wear whatever they choose or that it is a question of human rights. Are our troops not fighting a war for human rights in Afghanistan?

I think it is time all British citizens were pulled into line and made to realise they cannot just wear what they want, whether it be at school, colleges or in their work place, or especially where security cameras are active.

Also, I admire that schools/ colleges and insitutions that have not dropped their uniforms and code of dress.

It is my opinion that England itself has become too lax in its stance on behaviour and discipline of its children and adults.

We have yobs running wild on our streets, anti-social behaviour from neighbours, and murderers and paedophiles receiving nothing but minimum sentences under this very same guise of human rights.

L ASHCRFOT, Blackburn Road, Great Harwood.