SIR – You recently published a picture of some beautiful examples of Worcester Porcelain, together with a photograph of painter Harry Davies. It brought back many memories of the craftsmen and women there.
Harry lived in Wyld’s Lane. At that time, I lived at Fort Royal and often walked to work with him.
He told me that he had visited Buckingham Palace to take sketches of the Queen for the model of her on her horse at Trooping of the Colour and that he was due to visit the horse. He remarked on the Queen’s kindness and her beautiful complexion, but he had been a little put out that the palace staff had not offered him a cup of tea.
A few years later, when the Queen visited the factory, she made a point of asking to see him.
Harry always asked me if I had any news of my brother John, who was serving in the army in Palestine. A son of his was a prisoner of war in the Far East during the war, but I believe that he survived.
Harry Davies – a wonderful craftsman and gentleman.
Mrs J HOLLOWAY
Worcester

Leaving EU would be best thing for the UK
SIR – I must respond to the letter from L Presley and disagree with his/her scare mongering idea that we would be worse off if we left the EU. Has he/she forgotten that we have had four previous prime ministers who sold out our sovereignty to the unelected bureaucrats in Brussels? We cannot rule our own country without their permission. As for writing to the PM as he/she suggested, when I did I got a reply from an unknown civil servant full of waffle, and not the PM himself.
When the common agriculture policy was made law, our British farming industry abided by it, but French farmers ignored it, likewise our fishing industry was all but decimated and put almost all our trawlers on the scrap heap, and our fishermen became unemployed. Also remember the food mountains created by Brussels bureaucrats soon after we joined the common market, as it was then.
When we do leave the EU as I hope we do, we will still be able to trade with many overseas countries including the EU and of course our commonwealth countries, and save billions of pounds demanded by the EU. On a visit to Kleve in 1992, one of our party remarked, I quote: “We may have won the war, but Germany won the peace,” and in today’s press the German chancellor is reported as objecting to our PM wanting a restriction on immigrants in his negotiations for the in/out referendum. I support Wendy Hands in her comments regarding the EU, and I still think that David Cameron is being evasive and not being open enough to us, the electorate, with the referendum negotiations.
Mr N M DUNKLEY
Worcester

Who will fund chicken lorry clean-up?
SIR – Following on from your news item about the overturned lorry carrying 3,000 chickens, Monday, November 9. As of November 13, one of the large curtains off the trailer was still in the pull-in by the roundabout. There was a lot of detritus, excrement, feathers, etc, and the smell was awful. There are huge ruts on the roundabout. When I passed on Monday I was pleased to learn that the driver was OK, but was shocked to read in the Worcester News that the lorry contained 3,000 chickens. I wonder if they were left in the upturned wagon for hours? I guess many suffocated. I am now wondering who will pick up the bill for clearing up the rest of the mess; the huge curtain and detritus and the reinstatement of the roundabout. I have reported it to Highways.
MARGARET LAYLAND
Worcester

Fool’s paradise when it comes to climate
SIR – I refer to my letter “capitalism is finally on its last legs”, printed on October 27. As the science, which supported my letter, was completely removed by editing, please may I say this:
A few who look at climate science’s “hockey stick” graph can see we are now living in a fool’s paradise. For at least 600,000 years atmospheric carbon dioxide has never exceeded 300ppm.
In the last 50 years it’s leapt up. It’s now around 400ppm. It will increase to some 500ppm by 2050 and some 600ppm by around 2100. And global temperatures always mirror Co2 levels. Global temperature rise may have stalled but it will catch up. Then we shall be at increasing risk that our climate will suddenly “flip”, as it did at the end of the last ice age, when it reportedly took just three years to go from an ice age, to a warm and temperate climate.
Set beside the “hockey stick” graph, Worcester’s SWDP, and Cameron’s 2,000,000 more houses, prove “politics” are about as barmy as you can get. Development and growth, and ever more riches for the already wealthy, are simply unsustainable ecologically and climatologically.
N  TAYLOR
Worcester
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Please, pay respect and wear a poppy
SIR – The number of affluent looking young people walking around this city not wearing a poppy is a disgrace.
The life they have now is down to previous gener-ations who gave theirs.
Please wear a poppy and remember them.
B FORD
Worcester