ON behalf of Swindon Stop The War Coalition I would like to offer our deepest sympathy to the families, friends and comrades of those killed in the Hercules crash.

Their deaths bring to 85 the number of British service personnel killed in Iraq.

At a public meeting in Swindon last week Lord Stoddard, the former Labour MP for the town, expressed his view that the best way to support British troops is to bring them home out of harm's way.

Andy Newman

Avenue Road, Swindon