I HAD hoped to write to this paper congratulating Simon Geraghty and his cabinet colleagues on Worcester City Council for listening - and more importantly reacting - to the voting, tax-paying pensioners whose indignation over the bus passes and the closing of many of the city centre public toilets has been reported in the Evening News.

But I have to reply to the full-page pathetic damage limitation headed Myths and Reality, paid for, no doubt, by the ratepayers of this city.

What I will say is that the pensioners, to whom I am listening on the telephone and meeting in the shops and on the streets of Worcester, still maintain that the whole exercise of the bus passes was handled in such a way that words such as conned or misled - whether intentional or by error - quickly spring to mind.

Worcester City Forum for Older People is holding another public meeting in March and Simon Geraghty will again be invited to attend, to reply to the pensioners over bus passes, public toilets and the monstrous wheelie bins.

BRIAN HUNT,

Chairman,

Worcester City Forum for Older People.