Tuesday's letters including 'Don’t moan about it – sort it'

Unbelievable. If they think there is an issue then, now that they are in power and are running the council, they should be providing solutions not bleating about possible problems.

And to cap it all, the county member for St Stephen’s is also a Green, so they can’t moan that Highways is a county responsibility, as their county member is from the same party.

If they feel that the tip needs to be moved, then make a decision, that’s what you were voted in for, but seem reluctant to now take responsibility and do something!

Chris Mitchell

Cllr St Clements

Scrap plan for playing fields

SIR – This is an open letter to Worcester City Football Club and the WCFC Supporters Trust: Protect Perdiswell Park calls on the above to withdraw their joint application for planning permission to build a football stadium on playing fields at Perdiswell Park.

The vote at the shareholders’ meeting on July 7 went against becoming a Community Benefit Society. The Supporters Trust has always stated this as a vital aspect of fulfilling this plan that they conceived.

This ambitious but controversial bid failed to unite the community. More crucially, it failed to unite those who own and support Worcester City FC. The controlling interests will now determine the club’s future as a limited company, in which the Perdiswell stadium proposal can have no place.

Please withdraw the application and make clear to the people of Worcester, whatever their views, that a stadium on Perdiswell cannot and will not happen.

Jason Marshall

Protect Perdiswell Park, Worcester

Park festival great success

SIR – On behalf of St. Peter’s Parish Council, I should like to thank everyone who came along to our Festival on Power Park on July 3. If you were there, then I hope you enjoyed it. If you weren’t there – we missed you! The ice creams sold like hot cakes, and the barbecue virtually sold out, making over £400. The organising committee has agreed that a donation from this will go to our local Acorns Hospice.

The sun shone on us, which was a bit much for the dogs in the Dog Show, but everyone else seemed to enjoy the heat. The entertainment was great, and comments were good. The children particularly enjoyed putting on the siren in the police car, and we thank them for coming along – they did a wonderful liaison job, proving that the police are not people to be afraid of.

It was particularly poignant to have the World War One re-enactors on site on the anniversary of day three of the Battle of the Somme, and their bell tent caused great interest amongst the visitors.

So thank you all again for coming along, and we hope to see you at future events.

Brenda Wheeler

Parish Councillor, St. Peter’s

Result must be accepted

SIR – When the country holds a general election to choose a government, we have to abide by the result. We may not like the result because the party we voted for didn’t get in. So what is the difference about the referendum? One side won, one side lost, that’s democracy. Now, let’s all pull together and remember the old war saying, “keep calm and carry on”. Perhaps the continental countries will come to our aid, as we did for them in two world wars!

J L Reynolds

Worcester

Facing truth over nesting

SIR – I read John Phillpott’s article in the Worcester News every Saturday and he made a comment about PVC facing prevents birds nesting. I had lunch today with friends and one of them turned to me and said, “Do you still have lots of birds in your garden?”

I replied, “I have house sparrows in the roof, blue tits nesting in the wall and house martins under the eves. A wasp nest in the shed bees in the loft and a I have spotted a lesser-spotted crane in the field.

I should say I live in a 1970 house with PVC facing.

Heather Kelly

Kempsey

Look again at those figures

SIR – “Most of Wales” (Letters, July 6) did not vote to remain.

The figures were: Remain 47.5%; Leave 52.5%.

P M Lloyd

Droitwich