'Who decided it was a good idea to give such a weapon to a child?' - Your Letters: June 3

I know that e-scooters are not legally allowed on the streets except if they are the ones that are lawfully allowed through various schemes etc.

This said, can someone please tell that to the dozens of upon dozens of adults and the parents who have paid to have these death traps given to dozens of upon dozens of children.

They persist to ride around at ridiculous speeds on pavements, roads, shopping centres without the slightest consideration firstly to the danger they put pedestrians in, who have to dodge these carriages of death, then themselves. When they are injured or killed, who will they blame?

Anybody I suspect but the rider or the parent who decided it was a good idea to give such a weapon to a child.

But it is also annoying that when we see these articles of death we see police officers totally disregard the law breakers.

Yes, I know that in the great scheme of things these are minor traffic matters but if left as they are and nothing is done people just think it's okay nothing will happen, this is when everything escalates and other matters go unpunished and law abiding people believe the police have given up.

There is an old saying look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves. It is exactly the same with crime. Let lesser matters go and bigger crimes will increase.

This is happening now with very little action on shoplifting where there is a limit of £200 before police get involved, where burglaries go unattended and matters dealt with over the phone.

This is a factor our past and present governments have long forgotten.

Pete Lowe, West Midlands

DIRECT RAIL LINK NEEDS TO WORK

It is good to see Julia Buckley and the new Shropshire Council backing the proposed Wrexham, Shropshire and West Midlands Railway service to London Euston.

Shrewsbury is important both locally and regionally serving parts of mid-Wales, too. Previous attempts to serve the town have been inadequate and unreliable, this could be a game-changer for the county.

However, its success to some extent, depends upon the ease with which people in the county's other towns can access it. Currently, where there are bus links, they are infrequent and finish too early to give passengers the confidence of being able to get home after a day out by train. All county towns with no station need a functional link to the rail network that will boost connectivity, economic opportunity, tourism and make journeys by public transport a real choice.

Those in the east of the county such as Bridgnorth could join the WSWM service at Wolverhampton and may prefer it to the prevailing Avanti service.

The loss of Shropshire's railways during the 60s left the County an economic backwater. We now need to restore connectivity and economic potential and utilize what we still have. This is where future government funding needs to be targeted.

Mike Crump, Bridgnorth

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