Dear Messenger...

I agree with Kate Atkinson's article ‘Asylum seekers’ (in Issue 50), where she says that hostility towards asylum-seekers is often due to lack of awareness of their situation. I have got to know asylum seekers from countries all over the world where people have to struggle for basic rights that we take for granted.

Your article sadly suggests a positive working relationship between the police and Cactus Club is unlikely to happen. It is a must that it does.

With reference to the article headlined ‘Forum row’ in the April edition (Issue 50), the BCAF Co-ordinating committee is concerned that this report on the Quarterly Forum Meeting of 26th February was published despite the fact that no reporter from the Messenger was present at the meeting.

I thought you may be interested in life around Petre Street just over 50 years ago. Particularly in the winter when the snow's arrived. As a young boy it was an event patiently waited for, and especially if it snowed on Friday night as that gave us the whole weekend for sledding.