I would like to use your letters page to highlight two issues, both concerning the 'park' in Rubery.

Firstly, Councillor Diane Campbell wrote in about the 'marvellous, well-kept, beautiful' Sanders Park with its 'new enlarged and revamped play area'.

Amazingly, despite the fact that we pay our council tax to the same council, our children's playground is small, constantly vandalised, (as I write, only one out of four swings is in use) and dangerous - the surrounding area is peppered with broken glass.

Will anything be rectified before the summer holidays? Unlikely, I fear.

Secondly, I read with interest the article on Rubery Youth Day (Advertiser, June 15). I only wish Cllr Dave McGrath had been at the park the following morning, when the 'terrific success' of the previous day was a distant memory.

I was at the park as the event came to a close, and watched all the litter being tidied into bin bags.

Overnight, however, these were left in the field and had been ripped open, leaving the vicinity looking like a waste land, with papers, old food wrappers, plastic and glass everywhere.

Still, not to worry... by the time the bins were finally emptied a couple of days later, most had blown away into the village. Why, when we finally have an event in our park, does no one have the foresight to arrange for the litter to be collected on the same day?

I appreciate that Rubery has less residents than Bromsgrove, but please, either bring our park up to scratch, or stop bragging to us about the fantastic facilities at Sanders Park.

Janine Payne, Meadowfield Road, Rubery