Writer warns trail hunting ban part of wider vegan attack on animals - your letters, plus a February 1947 Walsall coal rush throwback

Readers take aim at a vegan-driven hunt ban, set the record straight on Darwin’s Beagle voyage, and lament Coronation Street’s lost charm.

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