SIR – Another season came to a close for Worcester City on Saturday with a well earned 2-2 draw. Our performances over the season have deserved better, but that definitely is football.

What a pity a new stadium isn’t being built as quickly as the new houses at St. Georges’s Lane, I hope a satisfactory outcome is soon reached.

I was pleased to read that the discount Ten-game ticket books for next season will allow you to share the tickets amongst friends, after all it’s support that’s important and not who purchased the tickets.

Here’s to another season in exile!

CD LEE

Worcester

I want Trump for president

SIR – George Cowley says Donald Trump is a fool and the next President should be Clinton. I would say not, she would be no good for the USA.

I have been following the debates on television. She has no idea how to run a country. Donald Trump has the right way of thinking. He will and should be in the White House. He is for the people. He would stop immigration to his country also stamp out terrorists.

The only way is to keep these people out of not just the USA but our own country. I think George has got it wrong again. Hillary Clinton would not have a clue, just like Margaret Thatcher, she is a woman and it should be said a lot of females don’t like her, according to the news. She will be a disaster – Trump to win.

CAROLE ROBERTS

Worcester

Unsupported claims on EU

SIR – readers will make their own minds up on the EU Referendum based on the facts presented to them. Mark Garnier’s intervention (Worcester News, April 22) was one of the weaker set of arguments put forward by the Remain side.

Ludicrously complaining that the Leave side do not engage in debate, Mr Garnier makes a host of unsupported claims during his amusing ‘Project Reality Check’. One such is that ‘all of our trading partners think we are insane to contemplate leaving the EU’. I challenge Mr Garnier to back up this assertion with facts.

Perhaps Mr Garnier can inform us which of the banks, academic institutions, think tanks, business groups and economists supporting Remain that he mentions are either in receipt of EU funding or are linked to businesses which have lobbyists in Brussels?

To provide perspective, let us not forget that Mr Garnier is linked to Big Finance, having spent years, pre-Parliament, in investment institutions, including Bear Stearns. Latterly he was a hedge fund manager. He would no doubt be familiar with financial institutions cosying up to governments – as Nigel Farage says: “The unholy alliance of big banks and big politics”. Big City financial institutions are amongst those that lobby the EU Commission in Brussels, shaping policies that benefit themselves and hinder the competition.

Mr Garnier is a shill for his real paymasters; the big financial institutions.

James Goad

UKIP, Worcester

Staggered at the audacity

SIR – A circular was posted to my address in Claines recently and I am staggered at the audacity of one Mel Allcott with her statement that the Conservative councillors had not arranged a replacement street sign which had been missing for several years.

I have only resided in Northwick Road for little more than three years and upon arrival was instantly aware of the dilapidated state of a few areas around and about. My first attempt to contact the local councillors and please note, the lady was of the Liberal party, who told me they were too busy and to make my own report to the City Council! A resident does not have far to look to see the deterioration of some aspects of this delightful area starting with the bent and bleached street signs many of which have recently been replaced by the Conservatives.

The pavements of Leabank Drive have remained cracked, crazed and loose for some 30 odd years. Alright, I will concede that a few repairs have been made but not to make the pavements safe for pedestrians be it day or night. Move on to Grange Avenue, a road which Ms Allcott must travel daily. There is not a level piece of pavement along here, sloping as it does from curt ledge to kerb throughout its length.

Now let’s look at some overhanging hedgerows of which there are approximately six which could be classed as dangerous to both children’s and adults eyes.

Now, who has been shirking the hard work and diligence?

John W Pedley

Worcester

Sign up for safer drugs

SIR – ADVERSE drug reactions have reached epidemic proportions, sending a million Britons to hospital and killing more than 10,000 every year. Yet new technologies are available to predict adverse reactions that current methods (chiefly animal tests) cannot predict. The Safer Medicines Campaign is putting forward a petition asking the Government to mandate the use of new technologies that can predict the safety of medicines for patients more reliably than current methods. To sign, visitsafermedicines.org.

PAULINE BURGESS

Malvern