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Letters

• English and proud

  SIR – Re your Comment ‘It’s time to be proud of our country’ (Worcester News, June 4). read more

• Adult social care has to be protected

  SIR – The news that Worcestershire County Council is proposing to put a cap on all new and updated applications for adult social care is extremely worrying, particularly as the council’s own consultation process highlighted that social care was viewed by the people of Worcestershire as the most important area to protect. read more

• It just doesn’t add up, Mr Leatherdale

  SIR – As a member of Worcestershire County Cricket Club, I have attended the early matches of the season. read more

• Our cathedral has so much to offer this city

  SIR – I would like to answer the letter by J L Reynolds (Worcester News, May 29) in which he asks which building would be chosen by the people if either the Hive or Worcester Cathedral had to be demolished. How could you compare our beautiful cathedral to the Hive? read more

• Let’s focus on bankers, not the tax on pasties

  SIR – After commenting on the Worcester News letters page about councillors up and down the country awarding themselves big salaries, it occurs to me that the bankers are another lot. read more

• It’s simple, Chelsea are an English club

  SIR – There appears to be a bit of sour grapes going around on the Worcester News letters page regarding Chelsea’s Champions League triumph last month. Firstly, let’s remember this is an English club winning the trophy and they now stand alongside past English winners. read more

• We need more trains, not a station facelift

  SIR – The article concerning aspects of the Worcester Transport Strategy ‘Rail station gets £500,000 facelift’ (Worcester News, June 7) is both timely and interesting. read more

• Look, it’s an illness

  SIR – I wholly agree with Sheila Harris, of Harvington, who wrote to your sister paper the Evesham Journal about mental illness (May 31) . read more

• Why are we paying to keep warlord in jail?

  SIR – Why must Britain be used as the world’s dustbin? read more

• Politics should be all about communities

  SIR – I’ve come under a barrage of criticism from all corners in recent weeks since my letter about the Lib Dems power share in Worcester ‘Lib Dems doing the same as independents’ (Worcester News, May 23). read more

• Give food charities some of the EU cash

  SIR – Re your Comment ‘Charity set up to help feed the hungry’ (Worcester News, June 5). read more

• We, too, were upset by BBC scheduling

  SIR – Like Sylvia Hillier (Worcester News, May 30) my family, I and many more were bitterly disappointed with the BBC 1 programme from New Road, which ended before the Olympic Flame arrived. read more

• The police and coaches – that is all we saw

  SIR – What a fiasco. I read the advice published in the Worcester News (May 23) about where to get the best view of the torch relay. read more

• Torch was great,but the organisation wasn’t

  SIR – I read your article regarding the blunders that occurred with regard to the Olympic Torch celebrations in Worcester (Worcester News, May 26). read more

• Lack of letters - an apology

  YOU may have noticed that the letters section of our site hasn't been updated for a little while. read more

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