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I’m not sure National Service is the answer

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:31:14 +0000

SIR – I regularly read about how National Service would sort out the younger members of our society.

Why won’t Government stop price increases?

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:33:20 +0000

SIR – Yet again we see rip-off Britain in action.

It sounds like we had a lucky escape...

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:36:06 +0000

SIR – In a city which cherishes good porcelain and mourns the death of Royal Worcester, there will be great sadness to hear the news coming out of Stoke-on- Trent.

Surely they won’t put price up this much?

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:39:54 +0000

SIR – According to Yours Magazine, Royal Mail is considering raising the price of second class postage stamps from 36p to 55p in April – a rise of more than 50 per cent.

Listen to Labour? You’re having a laugh

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:25:05 +0000

SIR – The Labour parliamentary candidate for Worcester [Joy Squires] wants the coalition Government to listen to the Labour party (Worcester News, February 6).

Canon John Davies was perfect gentleman

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:26:31 +0000

SIR – Re ‘City vicar guilty of sexual assault’ (Worcester News, January 28). I find this article distressing and confusing.

Please, let’s have an Englishman this time

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:27:48 +0000

SIR – As the role [Fabio] Capello vacates is that of the England football team manager, dare we finally hope for an Englishman to replace him?

We are lucky to have hospital facilities

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:42:52 +0000

SIR – Re the story in the Worcester News on February 4 about Worcestershire Royal Hospital ‘Treatment at hospital was so disgusting’.

So what advantages would we lose?

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:31:12 +0000

SIR – I was born and bred in Worcester and have had the pleasure of living in Scotland for the last 20 years or so.

We must do more to protect countryside

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:32:17 +0000

SIR – I am increasingly concerned about the Government’s planning reforms.

Others should lose knighthoods too

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:33:32 +0000

SIR – Fred Goodwin shouldn’t be the only one who loses his knighthood. There’s loads of them who should lose out.

Well done, you really are tough guys

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:40:05 +0000

SIR – I was pleased to see the picture of Luke Weaver during his triumphant success in the Tough Guy Challenge (Worcester News, February 3).

Mr Walker’s petrol plea is just opportunist

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:24:59 +0000

SIR – Worcester MP Robin Walker’s concern over petrol prices in Worcester is welcome but his suggestion (Worcester News, January 25) that Asda should build a new petrol station is simplistic and opportunist.

Please don’t make same mistakes again

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:29:23 +0000

SIR – Why haven’t we learned the lessons from the Iraq war?

Can you help me?

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:20:00 +0000

SIR – I would be delighted to hear from anyone with memories or information about the family of William Ernest West, who was born in Ledbury in 1910 and became a journalist in Worcester in the 1920s.

Could this idea put an end to crime?

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:10:00 +0000

SIR – Having to pay for scrap by cheque is a good idea, but why stop there? If we abolish cash then all purchases and sales would have a bank record.

Thank you, all, you helped raise £11,000

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:20:00 +0000

SIR – I would like to thank the many people who bought poppies in house-tohouse and street collections in 2011.

PM, what about the ordinary travellers?

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:10:00 +0000

SIR – The state of the railways in this country is sub-standard to many other countries – overcrowded, dirty and unreliable, a total disgrace for the price of the tickets.

We must stand up for our libraries

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:00:00 +0000

SIR – The Worcester News reported that up to 30 library staff in Worcestershire are set to lose their jobs (December 16).

I’ve so many questions about the Hive...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:50:00 +0000

SIR – I’ve heard it said/implied that the Hive in Worcester is inspired by the Malvern Hills.