THANK you Tom Atkinson for your attempt to dig Mr Tocknell's head out of the sand (Review March 21).

In today's news we learn that a school in Leeds is teaching English as a second language.

The pupils in this school have arrived from 55 different countries. Nations as diverse as Africa, Europe, China, Asia and the Middle East make up over 75 per cent of the school's students.

If immigration costs us £22 million per day, how much is this school costing the education authority?

I don't yet know of a problem of this magnitude in any of our region's schools but logic tells us that it will not be long before it does.

I hope that when these students become adults they will treat us with the compassion that we now are extending to them and not as I envisage, reverse the role and make us the strangers in our own land.

– A Forester, Mitcheldean.