ON his 80th birthday, my friend - who incidentally was one of the first soldiers to enter Belsen - received Notice of Prosecution for travelling at 35mph.

He was fined £60 and had three penalty points placed on his driving licence.

Another ex-service 80 year-old was recently mugged near his home. He was brutally treated and had his wallet stolen. His glasses were broken during the atrocity, which has left him a man lacking in confidence, confined to his home.

My wife and I love visiting Evesham, but our enjoyment was marred this afternoon, by the lewd obscenities of a gang of yobs. Now I have been known to extol the virtues of Wychavon's public lavatories, which are second-to-none in cleanliness. The moral to this story is an obvious one.

Rather than apparent preoccupation with political correctness, the percentage of flatulence sufferers within the service and other minority groups, ought not our police service be heeding the pleas of the responsible members of society?

This means recruiting and training paid part-time police officers, to serve on our streets as part of regular police area teams; integral to a strategy for combating the activities of street savages, who infest the streets of our towns.

The corrupt and rotten EC, that removed common-sense loco parentis roles of teachers, from our schools; sensible punishments of the slap in First School, slipper in Middle School, cane in High School, as part of a tried and tested Code of Discipline, has much to answer for. So have the Noddy Book theorists, that have brought about with their barmy No Blame brain-washing policies, moral, social and economic decadence. But perhaps on another occasion!

COUNTY COUNCILLOR TOM WAREING, Jays Close, Winyates Green, Redditch.