WITH reference to the Lonely Planet's description of Worcester, having lived here for 10 years I'm afraid I have to agree.
Yes, we have a beautiful Cathedral, a decent theatre and an improved shopping centre, but even then, the shops are your run-of-the mill shops you get everywhere else.
It may have an interesting history, but it hasn't an interesting present.
Apart from the once-yearly Victorian Fayre, it lacks originality, quaintness, and has no personality that makes it stand apart from any other town or city.
Worcester is notable only for what happened 300-plus years ago. There is nothing to make it notable now for in another 300 years time. We are so pompously proud of our history, yet have nothing that is going to make a new one.
CATHRYN MARTIN,
Worcester.
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