SIR – I have read with interest the comments and opinions in recent months of Worcester City “coming home” and having a new ground at Perdiswell.
The question I ask is do the people of Worcester want a football club or a football ground in the city.
The club moved to Kidderminster when the ground was sold in St. George’s Lane, a ground I attended many times.
It was sold to pay off the debts, in the hope there would be enough left over to build a new ground, and there was not.
The debts were incurred by a succession of people who managed the club poorly, and the fact that the people of Worcester did not support the club in great numbers in recent years.
I do not have the statistics but I suspect in the last few seasons the average crowd at St George’s Lane was around 1,000 or less.
As the population of the city of Worcester is around 100,000 I make that one percent of the population bothered to go and watch the team play on a regular basis, and that does not include people from outside the city, like me, who used to go and watch.
In recent seasons we have seen the demise of Hereford United, again through bad management, and they have at least resurrected a club in that city, so clearly there is interest there.
Bromsgrove Rovers went bust; Kidderminster Harriers are struggling to survive, again because there is not the interest in the area to support these teams.
While I have every respect for the people who try to keep Worcester City going, and your newspaper and BBC local radio continue to promote the club, I do feel there is very little interest within the community for the club to return.
WILLIAM STATHAM
Bewdley

Weak in negotiations with other countries
SIR – Now that the PM has published his so-called agreement with the EU it is obvious he has been very weak in his negotiations with the other countries. He was in a very strong position to demand the return of the border control, the return of the judicial to Britain, deport the illegal immigrants, and the cancellation of the human rights law, and if he was refused these he should have told the EU that if they did not agree to his demands that he would recommend to vote to leave the EU. Not one of these demands were asked by him, and remember it is this country that is paying vast sums of money second to Germany for the unelected bureaucrats in Brussels to waste on hair brained schemes. A vote to leave the EU is a must and they, the EU, must abide and accept the result by our decision and not ignore it as they did with Ireland.
NORMAN DUNKLEY
Worcester

Just a case of mistaken canine identities
SIR – I must share this story about a dog.
On Friday, February 5 my husband went to the Co-op for me at about 10.30. When he came back I was washing up and he opened the door and said ‘How did Dylan, (one of our three dogs), get out?’ 
I replied he didn’t as he was asleep in his bed. My husband then said “he can’t, he’s in the back of my car.” He had told me Dylan followed him into the Co-op and relieved himself up the toilet rolls. The assistant asked him to take the dog out and clean up the mess, which he did and apologized. He said the dog came when he called Dylan and got into his car. It was so funny I went out to the car and there in the back was a very large Staffie with the same collar on as my Dylan. I could not stop laughing because my husband can’t see very well without his glasses and he had left them in his car. After giving the dog a biscuit my husband took it back to the Co-op where a lady there knew who he belonged to and took him home. The dog had been well looked after but my husband will never live that one down.
CAROLE ROBERTS
Worcester

Behaviour is typical of troublemaking ways
SIR – I feel compelled to agree with Dr David Tibbutt in his letter of February 8. He is absolutely right that the Green Party are completely misleading the public they are supposed to represent.
I have been most restrained as Cllr Neil Laurenson writes almost daily letters to this newspaper but can contain myself no longer. Cllr Laurenson has done precious little for the people of St Stephen’s Ward other than tabling spurious motions based on matters at a national level over which he knows the city council has no control. 
Furthermore, he has proven himself to be a hypocrite on taxation, so perhaps a history lesson might help the Greens. Cllr Laurenson has voted against every Conservative budget that promised a tax freeze, yet supported the motion that put Labour into power. Their first act was to raise council tax by the maximum amount allowed without consulting the people of Worcester. He then has the cheek to criticise the Conservative’s first city council tax rise in 5 years; a rise of less than a penny a day to ensure no cuts to frontline services.
Additionally, having gone through a lengthy and costly cross-party recruitment process to appoint our tremendous managing director, Cllr Laurenson then waited right until the final vote to ask for the post to be scrapped in a clear headline grab, typical of his troublemaking ways. He also voted against our world-class swimming pool
As nice as he may try to come across on the doorsteps, Cllr Laurenson does not deserve to be re-elected. I call upon the people of St Stephen’s Ward to “come home” to the Conservatives.
CLLR ALAN FEENEY
Conservative