SIR - It must be the silly or grumpy git season because I find it impossible to agree with Mr Parr (Letters, August 5) that the endless photographs of secondary and primary school pupils attending so-called prom parties are "delightful" or fill me with hope.

I find them exasperatingly wearing fillers, and as a reader regard them as a sad example of the dumbing- down of the local Press.

I'm afraid the same goes for small animals and babies, photographs of interest only to the families concerned.

In the same edition, Worcester hospital trust managers grin inanely from the front page with their latest distraction, smoking relocator cards.

On my regular trips to this hospital as far as I can see, most of those puffing on cigarettes around the entrance appear to be patients in various states of night attire, some trailing drips or in wheelchairs.

How do the smoking police propose to move on these puffers? Might I suggest that these managers apply the message to themselves having insisted on pursuing the many misjudgements in Investing in Excellence and now meekly following the Government's misjudged and unnecessary order that trust debts be paid off so quickly at such a cost to services.

And while you're at it, send a relocator to Mr Blair and see if he'll get the message.

WENDY HANDS,

Upton-upon-Severn.