EVERY death of a loved one is a sad blow to a family and especially after such a long marriage – age does not matter, it is the same terrible loss and you feel for those affected.
I cannot see why this should be the reason for the complete shutdown of the BBC to repeat the same reports by royal correspondents over and over again and deprive millions of their much-needed entertainment.
So campaigning stops for a few days (that will suit DRoss), but the Grand National and the horse racing goes on. Reminds me of Cheltenham, when everything locked down but the sport of kings must go on – even at the cost of Covid infections, which spiked afterwards.
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Not once have I heard or read about the life of privilege he led or the fact that he was sent from his private hospital to an NHS facility when the private sector could not accomplish what the NHS could.
He was undoubtedly a great Consort to the Queen and her grief will be profound, but let us not forget he was one of the most privileged people in the world who really did what he liked for a lot of the time at the expense of others.
Winifred McCartney
Paisley
THE BBC has taken down its dedicated complaints form for complainers of the amount of coverage given to Prince Philip and the blocking of normal programming. This was after the unprecedented closing down of scheduled programme channels across the BBC’s entire output, forcing people to watch their obituary coverage.
Perhaps the sheer numbers who complained crashed the web page or the BBC have become alarmed at its numbers. Now complainers have to revert to the normal complaints form. To compound the stupidity of the head of the BBC’s decision to block everything including BBC Alba, viewership has fallen off a cliff. What a monumental shambles.
Mike Herd
Highland
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