Dear Editor,

I was at the Act of Remembrance at the Market Place last Friday (November 11th) with about a hundred others, including local dignitaries and representatives of the British Legion.

As always it was a moving experience and particularly poignant was the reading of the names of the 36 local people who were killed in the First World War.

The only unfortunate thing was that the two minute silence and the reading of the names were drowned out by traffic noise. Vans made deliveries and a dustcart stopped next to the Market House. They were not deliberately disrespectful and the dustcart moved on when asked and I suspect that if they had known no driver would have wanted to interrupt our contemplation.

I wonder if next year the traffic could be stopped for a few minutes.

Dr Andrew Rogers

Ross-on-Wye