SIR - With the excellent news that the new railway station has now got planning permission, and most of the money is in place, please make sure that at least two platforms are built for the Cotswold line, for it is on the cards that the line will be doubled in the near future.
If it is not done now it never will be, and everyone who has influence should push for this to happen.
ROBERT SMALLMAN
Barbourne
Worcester

More answers needed on new rail station
SIR - I have been following the reports in the Worcester News over recent months regarding the proposed station at Norton and various claims have been made which I think need clarification.
Tom Edwards quoted various “facts” in his latest report on August 29 but perhaps he could get answers to the following.
How can the new station promise faster links to a journey from Foregate Street to London?
Likewise, Foregate Street has two trains each hour to Birmingham, so a a new station is unlikely to improve on cross country services, even with a change at Birmingham New Street.
Has Councillor Adrian Hardman and his team investigated the claims that Norton Parkway Developments and developer Capita could produce the new station at a lower cost to the taxpayer?
Why not let them get on with it and save the county council money and any future risk that income from car parking and access fees will not cover their loan repayments. £14 million over 25 years works out at £560,000 a year, and that ignores interest charges.
BRIAN OVINGTON
Worcester

We need to be in control of borders
SIR -Net migration has now reached an all time high, 330,000,it is also the fifth time in a row the quarterly figures have shot up. when will enough finally be enough?
We are simply not in control of our borders, what ever our leaders tell us – we never have been, since being shackled to the EUand we never will have until David Cameron, finds the backbone to stand up and challenge head-on the EU’s sacred principle of open  borders.
Elsewhere others are... Denmark is reintroducing border controls in the near future, France refuses to let thousands of migrants in to their country from Italy, and Germany says it will now ignore the regulation that asylum seekers must register in the first EU country they get to...
GB DIPPER
Leominster

Picture mix up over village mills
SIR - Your picture on page 25 of today’s paper September 1,2015 is NOT of Fladbury Mill which is to the left of the picture out of view but of Cropthorne Mill.
Although this mill is in the civil parish of Cropthorne it is some distance from the actual village and was built closer to Fladbury in order to reduce its cost by not having to build another weir further down the river.
Richard J Coles
Fladbury

Freewheelers provide invaluable service
SIR - I am so pleased you featured the Severn Freewheelers service in the Worcester News.
It is an out of hours service that the theatres at Worcestershire Royal Hospital use from time to time to transport prosthesis and equipment between the WRH and the Alexandra hospitals and vice versa.
Our working day is made that much easier when all one has to do is ring the switchboard at the Alexandra to arrange a pickup  and Severn Freewheelers kindly oblige.
It also means that the NHS does not have to fork out on expensive taxi fares. It is a fantastic local charity which offers an invaluable service to the people of Worcestershire and is well worth supporting.
MARY JONES,
Hallow,

Friendly hospital staff put me at my ease
SIR - We do not see many letters of praise for Worcester Royal Hospital so I feel I must write and say how wonderful the doctor and nurses were recently in the Endoscopy Unit.
I was seen on time and the nurses were all friendly and welcoming.
Dr Hudson who carried out my procedure was a warm and gentle person who made me feel completely at ease.
I was given a cup of coffee and biscuits during my recovery and I have nothing but praise for them all so many thanks Worcester Royal.
Colin Napper
Stourport on Severn