MAY I ask if there is any actual evidence supporting contentions that the evil Broad Street trees have been maliciously tripping up vast numbers of passers by?

Information on the RoSPA website and HSCIC websites suggests far more people suffer falls in their own homes than anywhere else.

The centre of Birmingham has been a building site for five years, an eyesore of uneven patchwork pavements, roads and newly laid tram lines, far more uneven than Broad Street, Pershore, yet millions or people manage to navigate it safely every day.

We can’t pad pavements with cotton wool, so perhaps the answer is people taking responsibility to take more care where they are walking, even going so far as to abstain from walking while texting or telephoning and instead concentrating on walking and breathing (he said in a mischievously provocative manner).

I realise this might be a rather old-fashioned viewpoint but it does seem extreme to remove the trees when they provide amenity to so many, resident and visitors alike, and add to the allure of Pershore for the tourist.

If the evidence is overwhelming, then fine, the dastardly trees must die but let’s see and judge on the evidence.

Keith Lloyd

Drakes Broughton