SIR – The new leader of Worcester City Council, Mark Bayliss, has stated on BBC Hereford & Worcester in the last few days that it is not true that his council has been delaying finding a site for Worcester City FC’s new ground – or deciding on the planning application currently in progress for a Community Sporting Hub on the unused and poorly maintained land at Perdiswell.
He also stated that there had been no public consultation on the proposal. Perhaps he needs to check his facts – or did I just imagine the large article in Worcester News following the first one?
As of February 24 Mr Bayliss has had no direct communication with the Board of Worcester City Football Club to discuss or rectify such an issue.
However – the new Managing Director of Worcester City Council, Sheena Ramsey (who took over the position from Duncan Sharkey last year), is on record in meetings with the Supporters Trust and the committee tasked with the planning application stating that not only were the City Council looking for preferred sites, but that they had already FOUND preferred sites.
Mr Bayliss, your MD says you already have preferred sites, so you may not have delayed in finding them, but why the six month and continuing delay in actually telling the club such information?
Some transparency, honesty and information as to the above would not go amiss – this seems to me as if the ouncil would rather let the Club finally die in exile in Kidderminster to remove such an awkward issue for them to deal with in future.
KRISTER HALVORSEN
Worcester
Don’t turn off our workforce supply tap
SIR – Readers vexed about immigration and hoping for changes in our relationship with the EU might be looking in the wrong direction.
You only have to look around Worcestershire to see that the NHS, care homes, domestic agencies, hotels, public transport, catering, food processing and packaging industries, agriculture and horticulture are now very heavily dependent on skilled and unskilled workers coming from all over the world. Sad as many may find it, we are no longer living in a 1950s and 60s world and cannot retreat back to how things used to be.
It would be a very brave government that would try to turn off the labour supply tap to the massive global corporations (think Google, HSBC) that seem to have taken over from sovereign states in calling the shots in today’s world, let alone to our own businesses that, for whatever reasons, cannot recruit sufficient staff from the the local work force.
So, if readers are looking for a quick fix, there probably isn’t one.
DEREK FEARNSIDE
Worcester
I’d refuse treatment tested on animals
SIR – As one of the protesters outside The British Heart Foundation last week. I would like to answer the person who asked (February 24) if I had a heart condition would I refuse treatment if it was tested on animals.
The answer is yes. I have an hereditary heart condition. Members of my family had side effects from the drugs they were given. I stick to a healthy lifestyle and naturopathic tablets.
How many drugs have had to be withdrawn because of dangerous side effects on humans, but passed the safety tests on animals. We need research but not on animals.
MAX BURGESS
Malvern
Nothing will change if we stay in the EU
SIR – The proposals David Cameron wants us to accept in regards to the EU are nowhere near his original demands. What we have on offer is so diluted, it’s laughable to think voters will not see through it and realise that if we vote to stay in Europe, nothing will change for the better, and continue to get worse.
We obviously need to take control back of our borders and not pussy foot around to a bunch of muppets sitting in Brussels telling us what we can and cannot do,
GB DIPPER
Leominster
Paintings are the perfect remedy
SIR – A trip to the doctor usually means only one thing as a rule, that you are not very well.
So, I think it’s a splendid idea that the doctor’s surgery at Upton has some wonderful paintings on display where patients can sit and admire the talents of the pupils from Hanley Castle High School whilst waiting for their appointments.
The paintings are big, bold, colourful and very vibrant and hopefully will take away some of the stress a visit to the doctor might entail.
MARY JONES
Hallow
Male confused by mixed signals
SIR – A group of women at university protested when I asked, if they don’t want guys to look at their breasts, why they wear push-up bras and low-cut tops?
I asked, “Where do you expect a guy to look?” To which one replied, “At my face.” So, girls know guys are attracted by their faces, and their curves, endeavour to accentuate those features to which men’s eyes are naturally attracted already... and then expect men to look less, not more, at those features? Feminist hypocrisy = male confusion.
WILL RICHARDS
Malvern
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