MIGHT I return to your columns as the once Worcester resident and who has spent more time since the loss of his own Horticultural Nursery, home and possessions, researching the structural changes within Rural Society.

Now we see the latest 'assault' on rural communities with a centre for asylum seekers at Throckmorton, after the horrors of the foot and mouth and ongoing depopulation of the local farming and working class, it is hardly surprising that local communities feel threatened by this scheme.

No one I know wishes to be racist but the people of Pinvin and others around this void centre have every reason to be concerned, who will oppose this centre as up here in Cheshire, we have another matter to contend, underground storage of gas which once again displays how vulnerable our countryside is becoming.

I urge those concerned to not only write to their local MP's and Worcestershire County Council but also DEFRA at Worcester and the Government Offices in Birmingham.

I am sure the whole of the rural economy will support the threatened communities concerned.

JOHN E WILLETT, Conveyor (Voluntary), Future of Rural Society, 14, Eastgate Road, Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, CW4 7BW.