SIR – We read now the staff at New Road Cricket ground have been given a pat on the back for their hard work on pumping all that water from the cricket ground.

To me and lots more it seems a terrible shame to have raised the road and cut our trees to the stumps for an inch or two of water that gets there when they could have used a pump like they did to the ground.

What a terrible expense and no need to have been done.

A MACDONALD,

Worcester