SIR - Can I ask if moral integrity and empathy has gone out of the window in the name of journalism, a "public right to know"?

I refer to your insensitive coverage of the tragic loss of a beautiful, bright young woman, Kelly Rice in last Friday's Worcester News.

I'm sure the average reader would comprehend the horror of the incident from the photograph on page one but in order to emphasise your point, on page two you show another picture. Poor Kelly is obviously still in the car as firefighters are trying to do their job.

One firefighter has noticed your 'freelance' photographer's intrusive behaviour and is apparently trying to stop the photo being taken, yet you still insist on printing it. As a parent myself, I feel it would be awful enough to lose a child, but would be doubly devastated by such insensitive coverage. I understand that it was not your reporter who actually took the photo (I have another issue about this kind of ambulance-chasing behaviour), but I do hope you asked the bereaved parents if you could print such a photo before publishing it across the whole of Worcestershire.

My thoughts of sympathy are with her family and friends right now - maybe yours should have been too.

ALISON POYNER,

Malvern.

The job of any newspaper is to report the news, regardless of how tragic the circumstances. We regret any distress caused by the publication of these photographs, but the Worcester News had a duty to cover this sad event. Mrs Poyner is mistaken, though - the victim is not visible, and had this been the case, we would not have published the photograph.

Letters Editor.