Sir - Maurice Francis (Letters, 21 November) criticises the Worcester News for including letters on non-local issues, or from non-local residents.
Indeed, it's a local paper. However, local people do have views on non-local matters.
And moreover, we cannot be so black-and-white about who is "local". This isn't the 19th century, or indeed, Royston Vasey ("this is a local paper, for local people!")
Today many people move away but retrain strong links to a home, they have friends and family they visit regularly, or they commute, living part of the week in one place and part in another (I did this for a year, working weeks in London and spending weekends in Worcester, and the number of extra passengers on the train on Monday mornings and Friday nights seems to suggest I wasn't the only one. Currently I probably spend equivalent of about one month per year in the county. Is that not enough? Should I be excluded?)
Let's not fall into the trap of us-and-them, in-or-out parochialism.
Bob Churchill
Between Bishampton and London
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