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RUM awash with cocaine? BWell, well, well.

I read the Sunday Mercury investigation which found traces of cocaine in many public places, including Central Library.

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Every decent person who lives on the streets and roads of Birmingham has a story to tell.

There are the dealers you see selling, then the users you can pick out on street corners.

There are the victims robbed by the users to buy drugs.

Then there's the murders, shootings and stabbings, 90 percent of which is to do with the drug trade.

The people of Great Britain pay millions in taxes to the Government, customs, police, and the drug monitoring unit, but the drugs still get into Britain.

The UN world drug report states that there are more cocaine users in Britain than any other European country.

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Keep up the good work, Sunday Mercury.

JEAN PAINTER, Castle Bromwich IF REPORTERS can find that much evidence around the city concerning cocaine abuse, it is all getting out of hand on a large scale.

I once read that there were even traces of cocaine on the handrails of escalators.

It truly is everywhere. The money in our purses and wallets is also contaminated, I'm sure.

The list is endless, very worrying and impossible to control.

HAZEL MAIDEN, Acocks Green SO crack cocaine has been found at Good Hope Hospital.

No wonder the dear old ladies of the WYVS are looking so happy.

I thought it was strange. Even the hospital chaplain smiled at me the other week.

PAUL HEMMING, Erdington OF course it's folly not to have restrictions on immigration - but the emphasis does seem to be on colour.

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Surely a white immigrant can add to our economic problems just as much as the maligned Asians.

There is more indignation if an elderly Asian man gets a council property than if a white foreigner moves in.

A white immigrant is given more of a chance to prove what sort of person he, or she, is.

Does it hurt to have enough compassion to wonder what causes someone to leave family, friends and all that is familiar to seek refuge in a country that can be very hostile? BARBARA DUNN, Moseley LIKE reader Mr Allen, I deeply admire Princess Anne.

I would love her to be my next monarch, rather than dopey Charlie boy. GEORGE COWLEY, Worcester PRESIDENT Obama needs to be more statesman-like regarding his condemnation of greedy BP.

We are all in it together, as the man says.

Many Americans have vested interests in BP and short of sabotage, then the whole fuel industry and the spinoffs suffer equally. So instead of Obama laying all the blame upon BP for the mess, we should be pulling together.

Concern for the ecology and the global economy is paramount.

FC OSBORNE, Sheldon HASELEY Hall has the most wonderful and happy memories for me.

I was sent there by Frank Mathews and spent three years of my childhood there from 11 years old until I was 14.

I still visit Haseley Lodge. I'm 90 now and my brother ta