Sir - I was rather perturbed with the amount of police vehicles in Westminster Road, Ronkswood (Worcester News, August 18).
Seven police cars is just stupid. Possibly four, but half the force is rather out of character.
It seems they have nowhere else to go, then when we need a copper they are on other missions, and will be several hours before we get assistance.
Whatever happened to rapid response?
Has that gone through the window as well?
L M Presley
Bransford

Government is to blame for refugees
HOW many people, I wonder, have read the two volumes of the real history of the Western world, written by Arthur Findlay just after the Second World War about how when people can’t read or write
you can tell them anything and they will believe it.
Those days are, in the West at least, long behind us.
However, it saddens me that some people choose as a matter of choice to remain ignorant. With the huge choice of news programmes on the TV nowadays there is no excuse for not being aware of what is going on in the world in our name.
I have been reading for the last two weeks about how Malvern is tearing itself apart, one group being in favour of housing Syrian refugees in the town, another against.
None of them has tackled the real issue, and that is that we have a puppet  government who can no longer think for itself. If it is not taking orders from the EU, it is taking orders from the US.
For example, the bombing of Syria. It is this country, along with the States, that is creating the refugees in the first place.
Our Prime Minister can’t make up his mind who he should bomb – the legally elected Syrian government one minute, or the US-created terrorists the next.
Rather than squabbling among ourselves about this human catastrophe manufactured  by the Western powers we should collectively be telling our leaders to stop killing people that they don’t like only for them to be replaced by puppets that are even worse than the original – Iraq and Libya, to name but two.
Finally, we have learned nothing from the Iraq war. It was the US who created the lie about “weapons of mass destruction”. They never existed in the first place and they knew it.
They go on telling us lies, the Ukraine being the most recent example of that.
Perhaps Cameron should be the one to apologise to these Syrian families, for the misery he has caused not only to them, but to the rest of Europe which now has to accommodate all these poor refugees.
Bill Kovacs
Malvern

 
I just don’t like this uncaring minister
Sir - In several parts of the world we have IS (Islamic State) who are wicked and cruel people who don’t give a damn for the human life.
Here in Britain we also have a IS (Iain Duncan Smith), who is also a heartless and cruel man.
He doesn’t give a hoot for people’s sufferings.
He is a disgrace to our society and should be kicked out of the Government at once.
Lisa Morgan
Worcester

Sport and drugs do not mix: ban cheats
SIR - I don’t understand all the confusion about sponsorship, caused by ‘cheats’ playing whatever sport they participate in.
Sports and drugs do not go together.
Anybody found taking drugs to improve their performance in sport should be banned for life.
That is zero tolerance, and I hope that Lord Coe thinks the same, and acts accordingly.
Bill Jay
Worcester

In the early hours a friendly spider visited
Sir - At 2.15am I was listening to Janice Long (BBC Radio 2) when a spider descended from my ceiling, on a strand of web, and settled on my armchair.
A bit of company in the night.
Ho, ho!
George Cowley
Worcester