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Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez headed the history-making Leicester City team (GETTY)

Leicester City's triumph stands alongside the great sporting upsets in history. I am surprised that it has not been compared to the victory of the England cricket team over Australia at Headingley in 1981, where England won after following on, beating odds of 500-1. That was a staggering achievement, also brought about by inspired performances and a collective will to win.

Richard Walker

Malvern

It is the sporting team story of the millennium. No team has ever done what Leicester City have done in the history of the game. Claudio Ranieri should be knighted. Now that would get English tongues wagging, not to mention a few Italian ones.

The challenge now for Leicester is to get a group together to play in Europe and the Premier League which can withstand the 60-70 games they might compete in from September to May.

Is it possible that the Foxes can become one of the great clubs in Europe?

Only if Claudio’s heart holds up I think. The club needs to be calm and collected about what it actually wishes for.

In one season they have gone from boiled lollies to Ferrero Rocher and that can be a hard act to follow. I wish them all the very best.

Arthur Pagonis

Morley, W.A.

Has Sean O' Grady actually visited the 'Disneyfied' development around Leicester Cathedral ( 3rd May 2016, 'The Day that Leicester outfoxed their doubters ...' ) or did he send a malfunctioning drone?

His article represents not even a slight distortion of what visitors will find here – it is pure nonsense! The Richard III project, among other new attractions in the city, has been executed with great diligence, intelligence and respect for the surroundings. No 'Kingdom for my Horse' merry-go-rounds, no twin-boys wondering about in murdered prince zombie-costumes, and no Sunday roast specials served with Yorkshire puddings! Instead we have an excellent visitor centre in tranquil surroundings, with beautifully renovated urban planning to make the experience simple, informative and enjoyable.

And no, I do not work for Leicester City Council.

Chris Mills

Leicestershire

Would TTIP leave the EU's environment any worse off than it already is?

Regarding where TTIP fits in with EU environmental policy (After the leaks showing just what it really stands for, this could be the end for TTIP, 3 May) I understand that Germany has been burning brown coal for years and has every intention of continuing to do so.

Who's kidding whom?

P. Tyson

Birmingham

There is a lot of controversy concerning the effect that the proposed TTIP with the EU and USA will have on the UK's NHS. Some say that the NHS will be made a special case by the EU and will not be allowed to be privatised. But others say that it will, as the EU never gives long-term guarantees. Indeed the power to exclude is not in the hands of British politicians, but the EU and they will determine this fact after the TTIP is signed.

But one thing is for sure, if the UK was out of the EU, the NHS would predominantly stay in public hands. The reason: it would be political suicide for any political party if Cameron or, say even Corbyn, decided that the NHS was to be privatised. For if any government did this, the British people would never forgive them and that political party would most probably be in the political wilderness for a very long time indeed and possibly never return.

Therefore, it appears that the only way to conserve the NHS in public hands is to vote out on 23 June 2016, as left to the EU’s TTIP dictates, the NHS would in all probabilities eventually be privatised. For the EU-US trade treaty makes it very clear, ‘monopolies’ just cannot exist and where the NHS is the largest monopoly of services within one sector of the EU by far. The British people will have to think very carefully when they vote, as there are all manner of life-changing issues to take into account with the Referendum vote and the survival of the NHS, just being one. The question is: do the people want to keep the NHS as it currently is or do they want the NHS to be ultimately privatised?

That is a big decision in itself, as we all know.

Dr David Hill

Brexit: a UK wide choice

Your 2 May article on Thursday's elections was right to highlight that the SNP are at last being held to account over their performance in government.

However, it was wrong to suggest that "if Scotland votes to remain in the EU in June while the UK decides to leave, there would be strong grounds for another independence vote". The EU referendum is a UK decision; and the idea of a separate 'Scottish' vote in that referendum has been promoted by the SNP.

Whichever way you want the UK to vote in June, it would simply make no sense to break up Britain afterwards. Indeed, with Scotland trading more than two times as much with the rest of the UK as with the rest of the world, and EU membership for a separate Scotland unsure, the irony is that a Brexit would actually strengthen the case for the union. If the SNP tried to hold a referendum in that situation, common sense would prevail: they would lose and all that they would have done would be to waste public money and divide Scotland further.

Alastair Cameron

Glasgow