SIR – While I fully support your article (January 14) calling for the reinstatement of the market I think the reference to Droitwich becoming an old people’s town needs challenging.

The whole country is experiencing an ageing population but it shouldn’t be forgotten that these senior citizens can remember when the town not only had a flourishing indoor market but the prestigious Worcestershire Hotel and the Raven Hotel.

The baby-boomers born at the end of the Second World War didn’t have iPods etc in their formative years but endured rationing yet after toiling for 50 years working to rebuild this country are now faced with a Tory government that has decided to do away with free TV licences for the over 75s, cut vital services and make life difficult for its senior citizens.

More Droitwich people should get on the local councils and then the glass-strewn pavements leading into the town might be swept thus enabling mobility scooters to visit the town centre.

Yes the town’s population does need to wake up to the decline in the town which may yet include the closure of the library.

Bruce Thomas,

Droitwich