TO leave or not to leave? That is the question.

I well remember as a six-year-old child, the frightening experience of being roused from sleep by the wailing of an air-raid siren, being hustled into a dressing gown and rushed downstairs to huddle down a hole outside in the garden.

It was dark and smelly in the Anderson shelter and it was terrifying listening to the bombs as they whistled and screamed their way down to destroy Liverpool.

The countless thumps, thuds, bangs and explosions shook the ground around us, we sang songs to try to calm our fears.

In the last two World Wars England has fought against Germany.

Looking around Europe today, I realise the might and the power of Germany in the EU.

England simply must remain as part of Europe so that if we disagree with any country we can sit around a table and discuss, debate and argue until the problems are solved.

It is impossible to think that in this era of evermore sophisticated weaponry we can subject British children once again to horrendous wartime experience like those of my childhood.

Angela M Barry, New Brighton