SIR - I write regarding the letter about the money having to be spent on the Worcester Cricket Ground, and how it could be put to better use.

I agree that the floods have dealt the club a terrible blow last year and now, but your correspondent is right - there are far more important things to support than cricket grounds.

What about the starving people and flood victims throughout all the world?

Even in this country people are again suffering the effects of water in their homes, and children and the old are suffering because of all the damp.

It has grieved me since New Year's Eve that the country can spend over £100,000 per minute for a firework display to celebrate the coming in of another year. That was £1 million pounds sent up in the air to pollute it and a waste of money that could be used to help all these victims of disasters and the hospitals.

Each November we have all around us bangs and smoke from fireworks going off for two weeks, frightening the animals and wildlife and for what purpose? Guy Fawkes died years ago. Let's get modern and save the environment and ban all fireworks.

Perhaps this is the reason we are having so much rain - we are disturbing the clouds with all the rubbish and smoke from the fireworks.

Should a petition be sent to the Prime Minister? I am sure I am not the only one thinking this way.

MARGARET DIXON, Worcester.