THE picture of the burnt-out Danelaw village (Evening Press, November 9) made me sad and angry.

Years of work have gone into the making of that village and it was at last beginning to look settled and part of the landscape.

Many hundreds of children spend a day there each year.

They get a genuine 'feel' of life in the Dark Ages of England - not playing at war but doing the jobs they would have had to do to survive at that time.

I hope it will soon be rebuilt and this time the mindless vandals who got a thrill out of burning it will have found some more constructive use for their energy.

Dorothy Coleman,

Grants Avenue,

York.

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