SIR – No, John Shearon (Worcester News, August 8), it is not the case – and never was – that you are not entitled to your opinions.

However, it is very much the case that, should you choose to air them in the public print and they are seen, so demonstrably, to fly in the face of fact and evidence, historical and/or present, someone or other will point this out.

DAVID BARLOW Worcester