DEAR EDITOR - I wrote recently about my concern that the Old Birmingham Road, Lickey, had become a race track. I am now reliably informed that Twatling Road, Lickey/Barnt Green, is also an area along which vehicles are driven at excessive speeds and near misses are a daily occurrence.

I emphasise this is since these roads have been designated 30mph speed limit areas.

Within a few days of my letter being published I awoke at 4am to find a front hedge of conifers of a neighbouring property totally demolished and a motor car lying on it's near-side in a front garden.

This brought forth an ambulance, two fire engines and four police cars.

However, more lorries than ever have appeared each day travelling at very fast speeds, and all vehicles continue to flash along these roads and, I fear, this is putting lives at risk.

Then we have folks apparently thinking it perfectly in order to trespass onto private property and set fire to their rubbish, putting neighbouring properties at risk. It does not take more than a few minutes to have a huge uncontrollable fire.

Bus shelters are provided to keep us dry, but within no time they are vandalised.

Post boxes too are knocked over and not replaced.

Litter is also thrown out of passing vehicles.

Are any of these offenders being prosecuted? Is there anyone prepared to show enough is enough.

It seems to me that the message being given is 'do as you like, no one will do anything about your indisciplined and appalling behaviour.'

Norma Rogers,

Old Birmingham Road,

Bromsgrove.