SIR – Re: your story (Worcester News, September 4), about the traffic jams investigation.
I might be able to save the panel of councillors some time and taxpayers some money here. The clue is in the picture. Car lane jammed, bus lane one cycle only. 
The majority of commuters in Worcester drive cars, they don’t ride bikes or take buses, only a small minority do. Do away with bus lanes, get the cars moving, less pollution.
There we go, problem solved. I repeat: Look at the picture.  
 JOHN MATTHEWS
Worcester

What do we gain by playing by the rules?
SIR – The scenes in Hungary are upsetting; migrants crammed like cattle, banners desperately expressing “love” for all things German. However, EU rules are clear: migrants must be processed in the country they arrive at. This didn’t happen in Greece/the Balkans but the migrants have reached Hungary, so its authorities are simply doing what the EU expects.
 Yet Germany tells migrants they can travel free of processing, through the sovereign state of Hungary, to Austria. It’s a shame they didn’t consult Hungary beforehand! I once read a history book about Germans doing this…
Germany has since achieved its invisible borders for EU-residents, trying hard to cleanse its historic conscience. Yet, now it suggests that for non-EU residents too. Does this include our Commonwealth cousins? Sadly, I doubt it.
 As a “big dog” in the world, we must help out. However, allowing migrants to travel where they see fit, unprocessed, is no answer. It’ll only encourage more trafficking and risk-taking, more harrowing Italian scenes. This problem began in the Arab sphere; it’s there it must be solved. Safe, protected processing camps for migrants looking to come to the EU are a must. Yet, what are the UN, Arab League, African Union doing? Or the incomprehensibly affluent United Arab Emirates?
Though I commend Hungary for playing by the rules, I offer a word of caution: Greece did that by putting the will of its people to the EU/Germans last month – ‘t’s now a province of German banks. Vote to leave the madness.
D CARNEY
Worcester

Has your pet diced with death and won?
SIR – Wanted: pets who’ve beaten death by a whisker!
Leading vet charity, PDSA, is currently inviting pet owners to send in their most amazing stories of miracle pets to be considered for the coveted Pet Survivor 2015 title.
Every week, dedicated vet teams help to get our much loved pets back on all four paws again after serious injury and illness. The PDSA Pet Survivor Awards celebrate those extraordinary cases where
 pets have come back from the brink and beaten all odds thanks to these amazing animals’ fighting spirit, owners’ dedication and the expertise and skills of the vet professionals.
The competition is open to any pet treated by a vet in the UK for a life-threatening illness or injury between August 1 2014 and 1 August 1 2015. Pet owners wishing to nominate their pet can enter online at pdsa.org.uk/petsurvivor. The closing date for entries is midnight on Sunday October 4 2015.
 A panel of judges will then shortlist a small group of miracle pets to take part in a public vote, with the winner announced at the end of the year. The winner will be declared PDSA Pet Survivor 2015 and will win a year’s PDSA pet insurance (see the website for terms and conditions).
VICKI LARKHAM-JONES
Vet, PDSA

A straight question needs straight answer
 SIR – Oh dear it seems that I have touched a raw nerve or two as far as Owen Cleary is concerned, or several of them.
I suggest that readers take a good long look at the correspondence before they make a judgement.
Suffice it to say that his final comment about the holocaust sums up the bluster from the rest of his response. He was asked a straight question and didn’t give a proper response.
I rest my case. Bluster is the last refuge of a bankrupt argument.
CLIVE SMITH
Malvern

Tolerance is absent in the face of suffering
SIR – Why is there so much hatred towards economic migrants? 
British people who move abroad for a “better life” are usually admired for their courage and gumption. However, when the people want to move here for things as modest as sufficient food or clean drinking water it’s a different story. 
Reading some letters and online comments, things haven’t moved on since the 1840s ‘Irish Potato Famine in which around one million people died. The attitude here was “we don’t want to send relief, and we don’t want them coming over here either”. So much for the boasting about tolerance.
DEREK FEARNSIDE
Worcester

How do they come up with these ideas?
SIR – So now we learn that the solution to the non-existent problem that is the M5J7 roundabout is ... traffic lights! 
You have to say that as a contribution to the Highway Department’s master plan to bring South Worcester to a complete standstill, they’ve really pulled a rabbit out of the hat with that one.
MIKE KENT
St Peter’s, Worcester