I WAS disappointed to see your front page on Monday (Evening News, April 29) devoted to the dispute between the Football Club and certain of our parties who were fighting the Local Elections on Thursday this week.

It seems that the question of the "Local Plan", not allowing the siting of a large B&Q store is correct and I feel that if the Labour side had been in power they would have been quite irresponsible if they had acted in any other way.

To highlight, as you have done, the views expressed by the football club spokesman is also, I feel, something that a (theoretically) unbiased newspaper should not have done in such a way as to attempt to influence voters in this matter.

The possible relocation of a football ground to an area subject to many objections from local residents and a contravention of a Local Plan should not be allowed.

Indeed, I am sure that the vast majority of the voters would not consider the status of Worcester to be enhanced by this development, and certainly to degrade the normally high standards of the Evening News is most regrettable.

G WALTON,

Battenhall Road,

Worcester.