MADAM, I was pleased to see the two diligent Councillors taking positive action in the fight against litter last week. Good for them and may their example be followed.

As a pensioner approaching 80, may I offer a contribution to the perennial and fraught debate on litter in and around Ross. I simply cannot understand why people find it necessary to throw drink cans, fast food wrappings, cigarette packets and worse from car windows rather than simply taking them home and disposing of them in their own dustbins.

I find it so shaming, especially when introducing our lovely area to foreign visitors, to see the roads and lanes strewn with the detritus of people who clearly don't care. They, and we, have been let down by their parents and by their schools who appear to have given no proper example to follow.

I spent an afternoon recently filling three refuse sacks at the A40 end of the Drybrook Road and would urge like-minded residents of Ross and its environs to help in this way, also to impress upon young people especially the importance of keeping our highways and byways free of litter.

Whatever happened to the 'Keep Britain Tidy' campaign?

Peter Chester Pontshill