SIR - "Cleaning up pollution from the crematorium will cost £1.1m" says the Worcester News. That those who manage our affairs are going to spend our money on this disaster makes me wonder whether they are stark raving mad.

Isn't the carbon dioxide pollution from the crematorium minute compared with the carbon dioxide pollution from Worcester's 40,000 homes, and the 320,000 car journeys made in our city each day? Why are our councillors spending £1.1m of our money on reducing carbon dioxide pollution from our crematorium when that is a drop in the ocean set against the vast increases in carbon dioxide emissions the 5,000 new homes being built and planned will cause?

Why are our councillors spending this money when carbon dioxide emissions will shoot up as a result of the additional 40,000 car journeys a day that 5,000 new homes will add to our city's traffic?

And why are they spending this money when our useless university will add vastly more carbon dioxide to our local atmosphere than the crematorium produces annually?

N TAYLOR,

Worcester.