SIR – I fully support your right to publish all letters, even such as the one from Carol Roberts (February 2), but I strongly disagree with your judgment in publishing a photograph of an artists impression of the proposed Worcester City stadium AND repeat it on February 4. This smacks of bias which you certainly should not exhibit.
The drawing is NOT of the proposed stadium at all but a pleasant view taken about half a mile up the Birmingham canal towpath of the canal, four or five trees and some of the Perdiswell public open space, with the proposed stadium in the distance. 
Behind the stadium, from this angle and NOT shown in the sketch (naturally because this is a dreadfully distorted piece of propaganda) lies a substantial sports centre, a golf club, both with their attendant cars. Shortly there will also be a ‘swimming pool’, which when a competition is held will also require many scores of car parking spaces.
 Then just across Bilford Road there is a refuse collection centre which currently often attracts sufficient traffic alone to cause complete gridlock.
The artist seems to have missed out rather a lot.
NEIL HUMPHRIES
Worcester


Why is that original source not sited here?
SIR – The headline in the pro-EU paper sent to many homes – “Over 3 million jobs are linked to our trade with the EU” is confidently stated by the ‘In’ campaign. The source cited for this figure is the House of Commons Library. Surely the library researchers are professional and impartial.
But what is the original source for the figure? The Librarians have merely looked up the figure somewhere. There ought to be a detailed study done by economists, or think-tanks, or government that we can check. Why is that original source not cited?
The answer is that it does not exist. The 3 million figure has been around for over 20 years. It has been repeated by EU enthusiasts such as Nick Clegg and Michael Heseltine, and it originated with them. Therefore publications have recorded this figure. These publications are then cited in support of the 3 million jobs figure.
I’m sure that when the referendum campaign begins in earnest we will be subject to many more such. We should always remember concerning statistics-especially those quoted in support of Britain remaining in the EU: “garbage in-garbage out.”
FRANCIS LANKESTER PhD
Worcester

Legislation without an enforcement plan 
SIR – The problem of traffic pollution in Lowesmoor is yet another example of our politicians, both national and local, legislating without any clear plan on enforcement! 
They forget that some of the population believe that “the rules” are there to be broken whilst others think that “the rules” do not apply to them.
Once they have legislated they then believe that it becomes the responsibility of our police service.
MARTIN FRICKER
Worcester

Big portion of people aren’t feeling a war
SIR – Who can remember the left-wing outrage when David Cameron said he would limit the intake of refugees to 20,000 of the most desperate? The venom hissed at Theresa May when she dared say that some of the tide of refugees were not genuine?
Well both have been thoroughly vindicated.
Sixty percent aren’t fleeing war at all, an EU chief has now admitted. They have simply packed, left their homes for a better lot  over here.
Unlike our PM, Germany’s Angela Merkel, simply opened the gates and welcomed all comers, only to recoil in horror at mass sex attacks by migrants in places like Cologne.
Liberal Sweden took in 160,000 last year, has seen its central station in Stockholm transformed into a hellish no-go zone run by Moroccan gangs. Only a week or so, a young social worker was slashed to death there by a teenage asylum seeker.
We cannot be fooled  by all this. We must not allow any refugee in, or we will be punished. We let all comers in from the EU and are swamped by migrants from mainland Europe.
GB DIPPER
Leominster

How dare they tar us with the same brush!
SIR – I am writing about a comment made in the Worcester News (February 4) on the web. Whoever wrote this is someone who likes to think they are better than anyone else, all over a few individuals saying they had won the lottery who happened to live in Warndon. The comment goes on to say Warndon has always had a bad name and now the rest of the country knows it. I have lived in Warndon with my family since 1970 and the majority of the people who live there are hardworking, decent people so how dare they tar us all with the same brush.
LIN JONES
Warndon

Shame they are taken from their homes
SIR, What a shame (Worcester News, February 3) that Drayton Manor Park has decided to make money by enclosing monkeys for entertainment. It’s certainly not entertaining for these wild animals. The infinite possibilities of the forest, which is the monkeys’ real home, is exchanged for little more than a playground. Frustration and boredom are common amongst captive wild animals. Theme Parks where humans are staring at them is no place for monkeys. Please don’t visit places where animals are used for entertainment.
PAUL BURGESS
Malvern