SIR - The Worcester News' poignant photograph (May 16) showed local children who lost their fathers in the Second World War.

The anniversary of the Battle of the Somme will be here on July 1. In 1916, it left 20,000 British dead and 40,000 wounded. I don't see any sign that Labour or Tory supporters have any real concern that, with 111 dead in Iraq, more British children have lost their fathers.

FRANK L JONES,

Malvern