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Letters

• Nature at work

  MR Victory (Your Letters, July 27) is right when he blames building on flood plains, so reducing their absorptive capacity, and ill-considered upstream flood protection schemes ("one man's flood defence scheme is another man's flood") for the unusually severe problems at Worcester, Upton and Gloucester. read more

• Every man for himself

  Before we all slip back into our everyday routine, maybe we should reflect on the weekend of The Floods'. read more

• Pick up a pen

  THE excellent letter from Martin Eager (Your Letters, July 27) moves me to write in turn. read more

• All under control

  I must agree with several flood victims in their fury at effectively a flood tax which they (and us) will have to pay. Obviously funding is needed, to repair roads, for instance, but the Treasury has taken large amounts from car tax money intended for roads over the years. Water companies have not used all the money intended for flood defences, but have spent billions on EU rules on water purity - but didn't the Danes find that excessive pasteurisation of milk led to increases in disease because body immunities had not been built up? read more

• Barracks request

  I AM writing to enquire if it is possible to find any information about an old Army barracks that used to be situated in or just outside of Malvern. I would also be very interested in any possible information about the discovery of a body when the site was re-developed. read more

• We’re too modest

  WE have the figure of Edward Elgar on Belle Vue Island and the Morgan Motor centenary group is to be situated nearby. These are things which do something towards making the identity of Malvern visible. Malvern Hills District Council has done a good job in rescuing a semi derelict bank building and thereby giving real status to the town's Tourist Information Centre. In contrast, the closure of the well designed Open Air School by Worcestershire County Council points in the opposite direction. read more

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