SIR – I got a new bus timetable to see the new bus times and when I went through them found to my horror that my husband’s bus has been completely taken away. The 31A service which dropped him outside Mazak has gone, there isn’t even a bus if he went into town first. This service has been running for about 10 years and it’s gone overnight. People who work at Bosch, Mazak, The Plumb Centre now have no public transport.


I am sure also there are people who live in Warndon who use that service to get to work at the hospital and there would be shoppers using it for Tesco, so why take it off altogether without a substitute service? It is just ridiculous. We are so angry with these idiots who run our bus service, they just do not think of the consequences this has on people’s everyday lives.
MRS A INSALL
Worcester

NHS set for privatisation
SIR – What a very good letter by Geraldine Lowman, pointing out that the Conservatives are following their well trodden path of running down a publicly owned business, in order that they can then privatise it.


Remember the railways, The Royal Mail, etc. Now they are well on the way with the NHS if they aren’t stopped soon. 


They are past masters of the divide and rule tactic. Set the pensioners against the poor or benefit claimants, and away they go. All in it together, make me laugh.


However Geraldine did let herself down with the argument which stated the poor get fat because they could not afford fruit and veg.


This is not true, they just need to be educated and directed to substitute the expensive rubbish they buy with fruit and veg and buy a smaller plate to make meals appear larger. Are doctors allowed to say their patient is overweight? Or is it considered abuse of some kind?
Helen Smart
Worcester

Who should we speak to?
SIR – At times of significant national events you naturally turn to your elected members of parliament for information and guidance. Worcestershire is an exception.


With 9,000 steel making and related jobs facing loss within weeks, PM David Cameron on holiday in the Canaries and chancellor George Osborne in Paris, the man in charge was Bromsgrove MP Sajid Javid. Ten of his staff were attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art for “resilience” training  and he avails himself of the opportunity of taking his daughter on holiday to Australia. Any hopes of his succeeding David Cameron are now lost but at least he will be able to spend more time with his family.


Concerned as to whether we should leave the EU or have questions on the omni-shambles budget? I hope Harriet Baldwin MP for West Worcestershire, a junior finance minister, was able to help you by taking 27 column inches of the News to tell you she supports the violet click beetle on Bredon Hill. Not to be outdone, Nigel Huddleston MP for Mid Worcestershire was able to help by taking 28 column inches to tell you he was going to turn off his lights for an hour. I am not making this up!
John Lumsdon
Droitwich

Clear reversal of the truth
SIR – We know GB Dipper does not like it when his wildly imaginative claims are challenged, so I write this in some trepidation. However, his letter of April 7 was such a blatant reversal of the truth that there is no choice but to respond to it.


He is clearly out to promote the  myth that the UK can not impose punitive import duties on below-cost Chinese steel because of “the shackles of the EU”. The simple truth is that the EU had proposed an import barrier but that it was actually the UK, exercising its sovereignty within Europe, which refused to agree to it. Why? Because the foreign policy of this appalling government is, in everyday language, to suck up to China because of trade deals to do with, for instance, power stations. 


Mr Dipper can criticise Tory foreign (and economic and industrial) policy, by all means, but he might, perhaps, learn not to raise suspicions about his motives, bona-fides or intellectual compass by getting such a fundamental fact completely back-to-front, especially in public. Methinks he doth obsess too much.


Bring on the vitriol!
David Barlow
Worcester

An absolute waste of £9m
SIR – I am sickened and disgusted by Cameron’s Conservative government, wasting over £9 million of the hapless British taxpayers’ money to produce and distribute this EU propaganda.  


Successive Conservative and Labour governments have long promised and denied the British people a say in their own futures, and that of their country, and now they have belatedly been pressured into giving us a choice by UKIP’s stoic and unremitting campaigning, their dirty tricks begin, and they have the effrontery to make us foot the bill!


If you, the people, want to make a difference, this might be the only opportunity you will have, so do something about it... before it really is too late.
Will Richards
Malvern