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Letters / What on earth are they afraid of?

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‘An appeal for applicants to form [junior Up Helly Aa] squads published on Facebook at the weekend was … only addressed to boys’! (News round-up, SN, 18/12/2018)

What on earth are these schoolteachers afraid of? Obviously not the law.

Brian Smith
Weisdale

Please see also: ‘I hasten to apologise’

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