Sir – I felt I must write to respond to your completely misleading headline, ‘This is the realistic picture’, that appeared in the letters page on March 31 along with a photograph of the ongoing work taking place at Perdiswell.
This was following a request from Neil Humphries who also had a letter published. In his letter Mr Humphries says: “Perhaps the good people of Worcester then will have a clearer idea of just what the implications of imposing a football stadium on this site really are.’’
I’ve studied the photo and all I can see is the Sports Centre, 2 artificial 5 a-side pitches,the structure for the new swimming pool and an area for a new car park. So what are these implications that the good people of Worcester must see? Perhaps Mr Humphries would enlighten us.
The site for the new stadium can not be seen, the realistic view is in fact one of the new swimming pool. The only part of Perdiswell sports ground that can be seen is in the bottom left hand corner of the photo, hardly enough for a football stadium to be built, Mr Humphries.
The good people of Worcester want a football stadium in the city and Perdiswell is the best site for it to be situated.
Trevor Hughes
Worcester

Steel industry was savable 
SIR – Will we be losing another steel works in Tata steel? Looks highly likely. Not only will employees lose their jobs, a whole community will die, and hundreds or thousands of “related “jobs will be lost as well.
The EU has allowed this destruction, and the British Government has done nothing to stop it. Why did the EU not impose a high tariff on cheap imported steel, like the US did, when they imposed a 266 per cent one? 
Our steel industry is going the same way as our coal one did. Soon the only jobs will be call centres, selling products for products in the UK, owned wholly by foreigners.
Governments of all colours should be ashamed of themselves for what they have done - and are still doing.
If we were not in the EU then we could ban cheap imported steel, but of course the shackles of the EU stop us from doing so.
How long will Chinese steel stay cheap, once it has captured the market?
GB Dipper
Leominster


Detached from reality
sir – It should be a matter of considerable regret that ‘TownClerkgate’ has resulted in Malvern featuring in the national media for all the wrong reasons.
As if the fact that the some of £82,066,99 of tax payers’ money has been wasted is not bad enough, to add insult to injury the Malvern Town Council has been quite content to vote through an increase in the Council Tax precept. 
So detached from reality have some councillors become that they have been happy to go on record as stating that the matter of the squandered money is “water under the bridge”.
 I for one find such an attitude highly offensive. 
This whole sorry saga has laid bare the ineptitude and arrogance of some who claim they are engaged in public service.
As things stand I sense that the Malvern Town Council has no idea just how enraged local residents are by an episode that at the very least should have resulted
 in resignations from those town councillors responsible for this costly fiasco. 
R T Jones
Malvern Link

USA and EU have agendas 
 sir – Some people ask whether being in the EU would help to keep the peace. USA foreign policy wants to deal with one central authority in Europe rather than have the inconvenience of dealing with individual nation states. 
 I read that after the Second World War the USA funded to the tune of millions of dollars the setting up of the European Movement, which covertly went towards creating a United States of Europe.  
A number of declassified documents in 2000 reveal that the American Committee for United Europe was in fact a front for the CIA. The USA wanted a bulwark against the Soviet threat. 
There is also evidence that the CIA clandestinely funded the Remain side in the 1975 British Referendum about whether we should stay in the Common Market.  
The USA is concerned with its national interests. Pres. Obama has also called for Turkey to become a member of the EU which would invite a further 77 million potential migrants to come to Britain if they so choose;  hardly in Britain’s interests.
Disturbingly, the EU wishes to create its own armed forces and merge all member states’ foreign policy, whilst most forward-thinking individual nations believe that NATO is best suited to keeping the peace.
I put my trust neither in USA nor EU who have their own agenda.
Wendy Hands
Upton-upon-Severn