I WOULD have thought that a young man of Julian Phillips' age (Question of backing Petitions, Shuttle, March 20) would have had better things to do with his time than spending hours trawling through the petition concerning the possible closure of the Kidderminster driving test centre, to establish that Nigel Knowles, the Labour Parliamentary spokesman, had not signed it.

Neither did I as it happens - did he notice that too?

All this goes to suggest that he did not sign it as a tit for tat exercise because Mark Garnier Conservative Parliamentary Spokesmandid not support the siting of a radiotherapy unit in Kidderminster.

Inconvenient as it might be to go elsewhere to take one's driving test - and this is by no means certain anyway - it hardly matches the prospect of getting a life-saving facility in Kidderminster.

CHRIS JONES Stourport Road Bewdley