SIR – The report by Tom Edwards in the Worcester News on the “super village”, is I’m sure not his first on the subject, but it makes alarming reading.

Some 2,150 homes adjacent to Dines Green would surely gridlock the whole of Worcester with over 5,000 more cars (as well as many more from the numerous other new properties planned for the city) on our already overloaded roads. Medical practices also would be hard pushed to cope and local schools disrupted.

The city council is apparently not objecting to Malvern District Council, which is responsible for the plan (despite Highways rejecting an appeal to complete the ring road first. It still insists that the city does not come into the picture till 2020 or some such stupid time).

Any driver in the city knows full well what happens every time a hold-up occurs and dualling the road from Whittington to Powick will only make two bottlenecks worse while through traffic has no alternative route.

The Government insists we have all these new houses but fails to give any assistance financially to help cope with the traffic problems in store,bearing in mind that there are thousands more new buildings already under construction or planned.

The county council, after much deliberation, rightly agreed that only 50 Syrian immigrants be allowed into the county as a whole, but nobody seems to care that in Worcester there should be a limit to the population of any nationality, at least until we have a road system to cope.

Phil Pegler

Worcester

Deny elitists their perks

SIR – There will be only one group of people suffering from Britain taking back control of its sovereignty, its trade, its borders, and its laws, and contrary to the words of the so-called “Remain” campaign, that group is not the British people, who have suffered under the yoke of the costly EU experiment. The group I’m talking about are the Commissioners, MEPs, and bureaucrats in Brussels, who will lose the power they currently wield over us, and they will lose the huge sums of British taxpayers’ cash, since Britain is the second largest contributor to this failed club. British bureaucrats and MEPs will lose their jobs, which is what Ukip MEPs have been fighting for over many years, including all those wonderful (and hugely generous!) perks, including almost £50,000 a year for office expenses, in addition to private education and private health allowances for themselves and their families, relocation allowances, a private shopping arcade in Brussels... exclusively for EU bureaucrats and MEPs, and all of it paid for by people just like you!

Are these elitists really what you want to continue funding... just so they can tell you what to do and how to behave, while enjoying such well remunerated, privileged jobs? Is this really what you want to give up your identity, your culture, your security and your independence for?

Our politicians want to betray our county by selling it off to the unelected foreigners we can’t even name, because for them it represents a secure and luxurious role after their domestic political careers are over... who else would want to employ them? Vote to leave what our mainstream politicians have denied you any say in for so many years, and take your country back for our children... and for theirs.

Will Richards

Malvern

EU claims are just made up

SIR – It is very difficult to have a balanced EU referendum debate when many of our newspapers are releasing inaccurate and misleading stories, some of which then get repeated in the letters page of the Worcester News.

Often these stories are then retracted or altered following complaints, but the damage is already done. For example, there is no secret EU army being planned, Britain has not been ordered by Brussels to build more houses, auditors have signed off the EU budget every year since 2007.

Then you have completely made-up stories by the leader of the Brexit campaign, Boris Johnson, who has actually claimed that the EU wanted to stop children blowing up balloons, to ban prawn cocktail crisps and that we can’t recycle teabags! All complete rubbish.

There are many other claims, on both sides of the argument, that are open to debate and often exaggerated, but this is quite different to just making things up. This is a too important a decision to be based on such untruths.

And don’t forget, If you aren’t already on the electoral register, you must register by today if you want to vote in the EU referendum on 23 June.

Matthew Jenkins

Worcester

Spicy night raised £600

SIR – Our Desi charity night at Spice Fusion restaurant on Sunday, May 22, raised £600 for Speakeasy NOW, a local self advocacy charity for people with learning difficulties.

A massive thank you to Sham and his team for hosting the event and providing such delicious Indian cuisine. Beautiful, intricate Mendi tattoos were drawn by Sham’s cousin Arafah. Everyone at Speakeasy NOW also thanks Ron’s news, Bullocks tea room and bistro, Tagwell’s tea rooms, The Norbury theatre, Park’s café, Brown’s barbers, The Old Cock Inn and Morrison’s for kindly sponsoring the event.

Darryl Bradford

Worcester