CAN anyone at Midland Red West tell me why the two front seats of buses - as stated on the windows - should not be given up, if requested, to elderly and disabled people.

I have found unless you are first in the queue, this is impossible. When people get on at the terminus of No. 41, which I believe goes into the new hospital from Warndon, these seats are already occupied by passengers under 60 years of age.

When the children are on holiday, they take up the front seats. Whether they cannot read or just don't bother I don't know. But I get on about three stops from the hospital (at the bottom of Liverpool Road) and they are always taken up.

In fact, one day, I got on and a mother with a baby and a child about three or four years of age sat in the second seat and let her boy sit in the front seat on his own.

You are afraid to ask these people to move as you receive a load of abuse. I think it would be much better if it was worded to the effect that the front seats are for elderly and disabled only. I am 80 years of age with a heart condition and high blood pressure, so am glad to get in the first seat if possible. I do try to get out but do have to use a stick.

MRS I CHAMBERS, Worcester.