REGARDING the training of bees to detect landmines, Thelma Edwards is absolutely right when she writes: “Here we are again, exploiting the innocent” (Letters, June 20). But if we can’t protect innocent children, what chance have the bees got?

Prime Minister Theresa May admits that keeping children in cages is “deeply disturbing”.

What Mrs May seems happy to describe as “a long and enduring special relationship” with the country which is keeping children in cages, is something I find deeply disturbing.

Here we are again, cosying up to the United States. Here we are again, exploiting the innocent.

Ruth Marr,

99 Grampian Road, Stirling.

WITH regard to President Donald Trump’s policy of separating children from their parents at the US border, does he ever consider where his own parents came from (“Sturgeon condemns child being taken from migrant parents at the US border”, The Herald, June 20)?

If they had not emigrated from their respective European countries, met, married and had children, including Mr Trump, we might have been spared the unedifying and cruel spectacle that we see on our television screens.

Amnesty International calls it torture (Agenda, The Herald, June 20); it is and it could also be tantamount to kidnap.

Willie Towers,

Victoria Road,

Alford.