I’M sure many are disgusted to read about young ex servicemen having to live in homes for the elderly.
It beggars belief that our government send these people to wars and then treats the returning injured like lepers! NO thought for their dignity or well being.
Who would come first on a list of priorities, a wounded soldier or the many migrants entering? 
You would have though the soldier, yet no, they are shunted to the bottom of the pile.
There are reported to be near a million empty homes in the country, and our government still insists in pouring billions into barmy overseas aid projects and the bottomless money pit of the grabbing EU. 
It really should be a no-brainer..... charity begins at home, with our own people
GB DIPPER
Leominster


The future is in the hands of our children
SIR - N Taylor asked me how I would explain to our children why our generation allowed the growth in population, and the deterioration in the natural environment through the consequences of economic growth to accommodate more people and their transport and housing needs. (Worcester News, Oct 15, 2015).
Where we are now economically is the result of the choices we have made since the industrial revolution. 
Where we are socially and culturally goes back much further in time, mostly influenced by religious movements.
A hundred years from now, almost everybody who is alive today will have died.  
The human race has always been less than a century away from extinction.
We have to explain to our children that the future is in their hands, to learn from our mistakes and not repeat them. 
They will decide from our experiences whether they want ever growing populations, or development that has seen birth rates level out and, in a few cases, fall in some developed countries;  or whether they want to “be fruitful and multiply” unchecked, producing children with little or no life chances.
I would advise our children, for example, to support campaigns for women’s independence through education universally. 
That will be painful, as the shooting of the brave Pakistani schoolgirl showed, but necessary.
Meanwhile, I will continue to campaign for what is needed in our present pressured circumstances to accommodate our needs in transport, education, housing and energy in a sustainable way.
In the hope that our children will build a better world than that which we have left them.
PETER NIELSEN
Worcester

She should let the train take the strain
SIR -Joanne Tooby of the Fold at Bransford wrote a letter (November 11) about the Climate Change Conference. 
She’s organising a diesel engined coach to drive into London (along with many others). 
We all know that road vehicles are big polluters. 
And they’ll add even more congestion in London.
Would she not have considered the train (could be electrified sometime?) and walking 30 mins over Hyde Park?
Or even Boris Bike it?
GERRY TAGGART
Worcester

Make sure you don’t lose your right to vote 
AS a sixteen-year-old, I am asking everyone to register to vote by December 1 to avoid being knocked off the electoral register as constituency boundaries are being redrawn ready for 2020. 
If the Prime Minister cared about engaging millions to become political, then he would make a wider call for people to sign up rather than sneaking the proposal through Parliament unnoticed to his own political advantage.
The Prime Minister is preventing me from having my own vote in the European referendum in 2017. 
This is an opportunity for David Cameron to prove to millions of hard-working and law-abiding young citizens who are unimpressed with his attitude and record in government, that he is serious about his role as our Prime Minister. 
He serves every Briton of all ages and he has a responsibility to act. 
Young people need a ballot. 
They need a voice. 
TOM PARKIN
Lenchwick


Lack of concern for employees by council
SIR- 103 council jobs going, owing to privatisation. 
The council says it’s regrettable and it was not aware in advance. 
Everybody else could see what was going to happen, but Mr Campion now snivels platitudes like “hindsight is a wonderful thing”, and “of course we’d do things differently”.
Reading the saga of our council’s lack of care or concern for their employees makes me sick.
The Tories’ rush to flog off everything they possibly can is clearly leading to disaster.
And hearing of the Prime Minister complaining to his local council leader about cuts in services made me raise my eyebrows so far they disappeared into my hairline.
Tories consistently spout mealy-mouthed, weasly rubbish like this, while ordinary people suffer and struggle.
It’s just outrageous. I don’t know how they sleep at night.
CHRIS WINWOOD
Worcester


Terrible conditions for these poor chickens
SIR - I was horrified to read about the lorry that over turned in Rushwick (Worcs News, Nov 10) carrying 3,000 chickens. 
Obviously I was relieved to know the driver was unharmed, but utterly surprised to read that no one was trapped. 
What  about the poor chickens?
To have 3,000 birds on a lorry that size they must have been crammed in far too tightly, but then they spend their entire lives in cramped conditions.  
What a terrible life these poor creatures endure .
MAX BURGESS
Worcester