SIR - Field of dreams - the perfect site? I read with interest your front page story about the latest on Christopher Whitehead Language College. It is shameful that Mike Foster used this issue to make political gain. I would like to remind him that it was his government that promised £12m for the rebuilding of the school before the General Election only to withdraw that offer afterwards.

In addition to this, I would remind him that the majority of people in St John's are against the school being moved to another site and it is absolute nonsense to claim that there are great benefits for the population of the area.

Also, it does not deserve the backing of the community at all - he's talking complete rubbish. The children who attend the school now and those who will in the future

will be at risk if they have to walk to the proposed new site.

They would have to cross the Bransford Road, the lethal A44 Bromyard Road - one of the most dangerous roads in Britain - and many other roads to get there. This would put them at risk of having an accident. We all know, and I have canvassed many parents, that their mothers and fathers would rather take them there by car to make sure they were safe, therefore causing more traffic pollution in the area. No, we need to keep the school where it is and rebuild it on the vast site that it is currently situated on. There is ample room to do so. We would then have 70 per cent or more of pupils (as is the case now) walking to school, which is the stated policy of the Government and the local authority.

BILL DAVISON,

Spokesman for CHRISS.