CONGRATULATIONS to your youth voice correspondent Noah Dougherty for a splendid piece on fighting ignorance and prejudice.

I forecast a big future in journalism for this young man.

His second paragraph is very telling “So many people make ridiculous claims and assumptions without any evidence to back it up”.

We often see examples of this in the letters page where figures and percentages are apparently plucked out of the air or quoted from the internet without checking their accuracy.

It would be a good idea to ask letter writers to quote the source of such statistics.

Barry Coombs

Stonehouse