SIR – The report by Chris Plant (March 5) concerning the no show buses on the 30 route to Dines Green is no one off, as First Red would have us believe.
We regular passengers know only too well that our buses are often late or fail to turn up. Can any user honestly say that they are satisfied with the service?
For example, I used to be able to get to the Worcestershire Royal Hospital from Barbourne in 40 minutes, due to buses from the city centre bus station scheduled to run about every 10 minutes. Though this can still apply, I now have to allow much longer, as once, not long ago, nothing came for half an hour at Crown Gate and I was late for my appointment. Consequently next time I allowed longer but as the buses that day were on time, I arrived too soon. Call this a service?
Sometimes it seems that drivers are running their bus to suit themselves and not to a timetable. One has to accept that Worcester’s traffic plays a part in the this, but in Barbourne we are lucky that one can walk into town in about 20 minutes, often without seeing a bus overtake, though if one waits for a bus, it can be at least 15 minutes and then three buses arrive together.
Most of the passengers are OAP’s like myself, which is not surprising when one sees the price non-bus pass holders have to pay. All in all is it any surprise that most drivers have to use their car for travelling to work?
PHIL PEGLER
Worcester

Vote is last chance to regain our sovereignty
SIR – David Cameron’s red face tries to conceal a bruised ego: Asking foreign powers’ permission to change our own benefits system? Is that what we resorted to? Taking a begging bowl around Europe?
 Before these sham negotiations, the EU reminded Cameron that treaty change was NOT up for discussion. Despite this, the ‘In’ campaign wheeled out faded Europhile Ken Clarke and grinning warmonger Tony Blair, to help us ‘forget’ the EU’s stance on treaty change. Last week Cameron returned with, in his hand, a piece of paper... Then, Michael Gove reminded us that the EU’s bound ONLY by treaties, NOT verbal agreements (as they implied all along). Cameron fools no-one, least of all Boris and the rest of his party. 
Do readers know that while Cameron was ‘batting for Britain’, the EU parliament debated the creation of an EU Army? Were the smoke-and-mirrors negotiations conjured by Cameron, to create the illusion he was fighting for us? No, they were cooked up by EU bureaucrats, in their interests, with Cameron as a pitiful pawn.
 Be clear: Treaty change is NOT up for discussion, it never was. An ‘IN’ vote is not for the status quo. It’ll sanction everything the EU does over the next decade. The EU has put things in motion, that soon we’ll be unable to undo. As UKIP has said for years, this is our last chance to regain our sovereignty. Vote to leave the EU and rejoin the World. 
OWEN CLEARY
Worcester

Thankful preservation order will secure site  
SIR  – In 1949 my class at Horley school in Surrey, were treated to a day at The Oval Cricket Ground where Surrey were playing Worcestershire. 
Seeing the famous gasometer overlooking the ground on BBC TV News, memories came flooding back.
Ironically, I found that Roly Jenkins, one of the visitors’ bowlers, lived on the other side of Gheluvelt Park when my family went to live in Lavender Road in 1960.
Some people might feel that this famous landmark is only fit for the scrap heap, but I am pleased that a preservation order has been placed on it so hopefully this well known site will remain indefinitely.
PHIL PEGLER
Worcester

Don’t vote ‘out’ just to spite Tory government
SIR – So far, the EU referendum debate has been short on facts and big on playing on fears of insecurity. The Green Party are arguing to remain in Europe by focusing on the positives of Europe.
The EU has been about the defence of human rights and peace, about raising environmental standards, and about defending worker rights. We’re citizens on a continent in which we are all – really – in it together.
We need many reforms in Brussels, but then we need many reforms in Westminster. That’s not an argument for giving up on democracy, despite the fact we’ve now got a government with the support of just 24% of eligible voters.
The Leave campaign would turn Britain away from its geography, away from its proud history of offering refuge to those in need, away from cooperation and friendship. This is a Britain not just damaging itself, but damaging the rest of Europe, and the world.
We must not allow the “out” campaign to use general dissatisfaction, distrust for our undemocratic government, fear for the future – to drive a vote to leave the EU.
The EU vote isn’t a vote of no-confidence in this government, much as that’s deserved. It’s a vote on our long term future.
LOUIS STEPHEN
Worcester Green Party 

Papers do support call for us to eat less meat
SIR – Louis Stephen of Worcester Green Party is absolutely correct that there are plenty of academic papers to support the assertion that eating less meat would reduce the impact of climate change (“A paper to support eating less meat, February 25).
GEORGE RICHARDSON
Malvern