Letter: Welsh not British!(Letters)

From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | Date: March 4, 2003 | Copyright information

Byline: Wyn Hobson

ELWYN Jones (''Why we should be proud to be British'', March 3) made much of the fact that96pc of respondents in Wales had ticked the ``White British'' box on the 2001 Census form when asked to indicate their ethnic origin.

He took care, ...

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