SIR – I would like to reply to City Councillor Simon Cronin (August 30).

Simon – being one of the new kids on the block – wouldn’t know that during the years that New Labour controlled the city council, and from 1997 when sadly New Labour was elected to government, I spent considerable time at both city and county council meetings.

These days, with informative reporting in this newspaper, plus excellent city and county council’s websites, and my continuing political contacts on all groups, I am now even more able to keep abreast with relevant information.

So, although the cuts in subsidy funding for the older people’s one hot meal, seven days a week, lies squarely with the Worcestershire County Council, the continuing cuts by Simon’s government in supporting people’s grants, puts enormous and unjust pressures on all services.

Worcestershire Pensioners’ Action group is being very well represented by chairman Ron Chambers on the scrutiny task force on the pensioners’ meals issue, concentrating on the availability seven days a week as well as the taste.

BRIAN HUNT,

Vice chairman,

Worcestershire Pensioners Action Group.