WHAT YOU SAID: Who do you want as the next Doctor?

Jodie Whittaker will step down as the 13th Doctor in Autumn 2022, the BBC has confirmed.

Whittaker broke records when her fist episode as the Doctor in October 2018 was watched by 11.5 million viewers, the show’s biggest audience in almost a decade.

She said in a statement: “In 2017 I opened my glorious gift box of size 13 shoes, I could not have guessed the brilliant adventures, worlds and wonders I was to see in them. My heart is so full of love for this show, for the team who make it, for the fans who watch it and for what it has brought to my life.”

We asked our readers who they would like to see as the 14th Doctor.

Sara Thompson: They need to replace the writers.

Susan Davis: Kris Marshall would be brilliant.

Trudi Nash: Olly Alexander

Simon Lord Archer: Louie Spence

Stephen Farmer: That show must end, it’s got really silly now, used to be good,but gone on for too long now!

Rob Cook: Same old list of names. Perhaps they should concentrate on getting a better writer.

Steve Green: Dawn French

Dave Glenn: Does it matter it will end up being Michael Mclntyre, Danny Dyer or something stupid. It’s gone downhill choosing doctors.

People living in camps on the coast of France have said they will “try until they die” to reach the UK.

Around 2,000 migrants are currently living around Calais and Dunkirk awaiting an opportunity to cross the English Channel on board small boats or via lorries.

Jean Merry: We all know that we are a soft touch for those people,they come they say from war torn countries,etc,well can some one explain why when they went into army barracks they complain and set fire to it,they get put in hotel rooms,ungrateful scrounges looking for a free ride,time our veterans and homeless were looked after the way this lot of people expect.

Lorraine Larden: There should be offshore reception and possessing centres, genuine refugees are welcome but most of them are not genuine at all, they are economic migrants, off shore centres are the way to go to sort the wheat from the chaff.

Hayley Dixon: I honestly don’t understand the ‘don’t let them in’ mentality. Seriously, how utterly desperate do you need to be to pack your whole family into a (probably tiny, cramped and unsafe) boat just to escape where you live, how can people see they feel like they have no choice.

Meanwhile, dozens of children in Wiltshire – two of them under the age of 13 - are authorised to use guns, new figures reveal.

The Gun Control Network said allowing children to use powerful weapons, such as shotguns, is “absurd” and warned that weapon security cannot be guaranteed with youngsters. But the British Association of Shooting and Conservation says teaching children how to enjoy the benefits of responsible shooting is to be encouraged.

Helen Kobylec: Nothing of concern here they would have been deemed safe by a firearms officer. You want to be much more concerned with the gangs with knives!

Sally Miles: I sincerely hope they all belong to a gun club are monitored.

Charanna Stainer: And I was in the army cadets doing target shooting with adult supervision we never used a rifle alone though unsupervised and I have never shot anyone seriously.

Willy Seavanos: Better them holding a gun licence and being responsible rather than holding a knife and stabbing other kids on the streets.

Dave Bennett: I’ve never heard of a licensed youngster going round town shooting people. I have heard of plenty going round stabbing people with screwdrivers and kitchen knives though.

Marilyn Dickens: No one under the age of 25 should have a licence.

Graham Hickman: Children (of any age) may legally have a shotgun certificate but they won’t have unaccompanied access to a shotgun until they are 15. They cannot buy a shotgun or cartridges until they are 18.

Jan Bailey: Probably farmers and landowners children. The country folk and 1%. No big surprise there only in the fact the number is so low.

Derek Sowton: Excellent, I taught all my children about how to use guns and the dangers associated with them.