HAVING read We Say in Tuesday's edition of the Evening News (January 16) I am starting to wonder whether you are interested in reporting factually or whether you just want to fill newspaper columns with sensational nonsense in a shabby attempt to sell newspapers.

You came out in favour of a total ban on hunting a short while ago. When you did so, you based that on no factual evidence whatsoever. You ignored the findings of the Burns Inquiry. Not only that, the journalist who wrote the article was not even "man" enough to sign it with his own name.

I put it to you that the Evening News is not interested in the countryside. It is not interested in the people who live there, nor is it interested in the welfare of the animal kingdom that is a part of the country in which we live. It is only interested in selling newspapers rather than reporting the true facts.

I have asked this newspaper to organise a telephone poll to ask the people of Worcester whether or not MP Michael Foster should debate this issue with me in front of his own constituents, yet it refuses to do so. The reason that the paper makes such a refusal is because it knows what the result of that poll would be!

Come on Evening News, get off your pedestal and face the people. I am happy to take on both Michael Foster MP and the Editor of We Say in debate. But you'd both better get your facts very clear before embarrassing yourselves in front of the people of Worcester.

TIM PINNEY,

Chairman,

Worcestershire Countryside Alliance.

Editor's Note: As Mr Pinney knows, it would be impossible to prevent non-Worcester constituents from joining any phone vote. That rules it out. In addition, a newspaper's opinion column is an expression of the title's view, not one individual's, so is not bylined.