SIR – I was at Pitchcroft and I agree that not enough was done in advance about the rubbish.

One bin near the entrance/exit was not enough and was overflowing early on. Several of these huge bins would have been better for such a big event as almost everyone had picnics.

In view of the expected huge crowds with one bottle of wine or four cans allowed each there should have been much better planning. Many more bins including recycling bins would have prevented much of the problem and greatly increasing council staff numbers to clear up after would help.

We searched for a bin but it was overflowing by 5pm. The event went on long after that. If we want to attract tourists the rubbish problem should be better planned for and taken more seriously.

Jennifer Tarry

Worcester

UK dances to Merkel’s tune

SIR – In 1965 I watched a film in Birmingham named ‘Echo of the Jackboot’. It said ‘do not believe Adolf Hitler only hated the Jews’. It said he also had plans to exterminate millions of British, Americans and Russians if he had won the war. That means at least 90 per cent of you reading this would never have been born (the lucky ones).

We all owe our lives to all those brave men and women who gave their lives to save us. They did so to stop the British people becoming slaves to another country and that includes Germany and France. These two now completely dominate the EU, the rest are like puppets on a string dancing to Angela Merkel’s Fourth Reich tune. If Adolf Hitler was alive today he would be doubled up ‘laughing’.

It was Ted Heath who started this God Almighty mess of destroying British sovereignty. He knew exactly what he was doing.

Then he was followed by John Major who signed more British freedom and sovereignty away in the Maastricht Treaty. Then came Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, Labour MPs who both refused referendum breaking manifesto pledge. Then Brown signed more sovereignty away in the Lisbon Treaty.

Let’s not pussyfoot around here. Many years ago these four men Heath, Major, Blair and Brown who signed British freedom and sovereignty away would have been classed as ‘traitors’ to the British people, like ‘Lord Haw Haw.’ Heath has passed away, but how these other three traitors, Major, Blair and Brown, sleep at night is beyond me.

K Hemming

Worcester

EU can tackle climate issues

SIR – The Green Party is calling on voters, who care about the environment and tackling climate change, to vote for the UK to remain in the European Union.

Creating common standards across Europe ensures that all governments – particularly our own, with its dreadful environmental record – meet the need for action on climate change and other environmental crises that we face – crises that don’t stop at national borders.

The Brexit campaign leadership (Gove and Farage) is dominated by climate sceptics, with a terrible track record on renewable energy and undermining climate action. They deny the scientific evidence on climate change, just as they deny the economic and environmental risks of leaving the EU.

Michael Gove tried to remove climate change from the national curriculum, an indefensible attempt to prevent our young people being informed about the overwhelming scientific consensus on the subject. Meanwhile, Nigel Farage and UKIP want to abolish the Climate Change Act and have expressed total opposition to wind power.

The Green Party’s campaign is focusing on our membership’s central place in maintaining and enhancing workers’ rights, and on the capacity and actions of the EU in reining in the abuses of tax-dodging, low-paying multinational companies.

Cllr Louis Stephen

Worcester Green Party

Greens can’t decide policy

SIR – What a total waste of time it was for voters electing their city councillors, ie Conservatives or Labour, and ending up with a hung council. Now we have a situation where two Green councillors can and will dictate previous and present decisions and new ones just to keep Labour in power. They have started already. No Perdiswell Football pitch, no dustbin reforms, loosing £400,000 a year. It cannot be right that two Green councillors can decide council policy with their own agenda. Labour and Conservatives need to get behind closed doors and sort out their policies which is best for Worcester people not two men.

Mr C J Salisbury

Kempsey

Class has a long history

SIR – Your nostalgia item about the ‘Women’s league of Health and Beauty’ is not correct. The Worcester class has been running continuously since 1968. I have been a member since 1971 until the present time.

We have the same teachers who started the class and we meet at Nunnery Wood School every Monday in term times from 7.30pm to 9.30pm.

J M Watkins

Worcester