IN last week’s edition of the Western Telegraph, I was pleased to learn that up to 1,000 asylum seekers may be temporarily housed in the county’s military camps.

What I found very difficult to countenance however was your front page headline ‘Asylum camp fear’.

May I ask where the ‘fear’ emanates from? Certainly there was no fear articulated from anyone quoted in the article.

I sincerely hope that your headline wasn’t used purely to sensationalise what is clearly an extremely difficult and sad situation for our brothers and sisters across the Middle East.

I cannot really envisage the traumatic plight that face Syrian men, women and children as they flee their homes and everything they hold important.

Then they are faced with a hazardous and very uncertain future because their lives are in such a parlous and dangerous state.

One thing I’m certain about is that, should these traumatised people come to our lovely county, there will be very many residents who will come forward with offers of help and support.

Surely, we must welcome them with open arms and try to ameliorate their present suffering and make their lives a little more bearable.

JERRY CHANCE

Narberth