SIR - In reply to the letter in the Worcester News of January 26 from Mrs Pat Stanley I heartily agree with her sentiments about the background noises on all the TV channels.

Since 2011 I have been writing to both the BBC and ITV but it appears that they are either blind or cannot read the many complaints about the background noise that the viewers send to them.

Only today I have written to Tony Hall the head of BBC and complained again, who when he was appointed said that he would listen to any complaints and act upon them. I'm still waiting for positive action from him to cease this background noise which is so very frustrating when you cannot hear the dialogue

I am hoping that many more people will, like Mrs Stanley and myself, keep badgering the TV companies and then these young upstarts in charge of sound might understand how we feel and take the action necessary to cease these horrendous background noises.

NORMAN M DUNKLEY Worcester