Tony Eaves is 65 years old, married to Jean and they have two children. He lives at Martin Hussingtree.

He is the managing director of a window, doors and blinds manufacturing business.

I shall request adequate Government funding to cover the interim period during which the farming community will be recovering from loss of revenue and personal stress and trauma. I shall also seek to provide assistance in sourcing replacement healthy stock and feed.

There should also be tax concessions over an agreed recovery period with interest free loans.

There should be guidance and re-training facilities, with possibly relaxed planning restrictions on alternative use of land, for those who do not, or cannot, return to farming.

The tourist industry must also be adequately compensated for loss of earnings. The countryside facilities should be promoted at home and overseas, by using high profile professional promotion and marketing techniques, emphasising that foot-and-mouth has no connection with BSE. The Government should fund this.

We must also look back to the source of the problem and improve control of imported infected mean and livestock.

Rejuvenating Droitwich and Evesham is a matter of discussion with the people who live in and around these towns, for consideration must be given to all ages in respect of facilities provided for pleasure, leisure and relaxation.

By working together we can make these towns a better place to live in. I want to encourage people to shop locally.

To do that we must provide ample satisfactory facilities. Out of centre low cost parking, with transport services in and around the town (probably electric powered or horse-drawn) traffic free areas and mobility services.

Development should be on traditional architecture, with smaller type shops in keeping with a market town atmosphere and plenty of variety. This could well incorporate farmers markets.

Perhaps open air features, performing artists and seasonal events similar to Worcester Christmas Victorian fair and the development of local canals. Lower business rates to encourage business.

Drugs and related stealing are on the increase and are totally unacceptable. Education relating to the use of drugs should be increased, soft or hard there is really no distinction other than on medical grounds. Warnings in picture form, similar to the drink-drive campaigns, are more effective than words. Convicted addicts should be given an opportunity to dry out at specialised centres rather than just imprisonment. Special services similar to community service, could be used for convicted users, to enable them to earn money to compensate victims. We must increase vigilance to prevent the entry of drugs into the UK. Funds and specially trained personnel have to be made available.

Dealers and carriers should always be given the maximum penalty as they are in the Middle East with no early discharge. We need to pressurise the police to operate a zero tolerance policy, which after all is simply making people accept responsibility for their actions. Magistrates and judges must use maximum sentences as a deterrent.

We should by now have accepted that flooding due to global warming will continue possibly more frequently. Technical answers, to at least reduce the possibilities of the re-occurrence of serious flooding should have been given a priority by the Environment Agency (we should really have a special flood agency) and funding for projects could have been provided from the £11m we pay annually to the EU.

Locally we should be more careful to consider planning applications where building may be on, or close to, flood plains. We have to provide adequate flood defences with consideration from the environmental factors, but human life has priority.

Dredging programmes could be re-introduced. On a larger national scale perhaps we should be looking at control schemes similar to the Thames or, perhaps piping the water to reservoirs.

The Worcester hospital is not about statistics and percentages, it's about patients and patient care. Patients, doctors, nurses and auxiliary staff know full well that the hospital, in it's present state, is not adequate to serve the community undertaken by Castle Street and Ronkswood and no consideration has been given to the increasing population. Redditch and Kidderminster hospitals must be reinstated.

We pay £30m each day into the EU. That money could be used to fund our hospital services. In four days that money could have funded the new hospital. In five days it could fund the hospital to the size we need and provide the right number of beds, facilities and equipment.