WHAT is happening to Hereford and what has become of any protection that we all expect from the police, environmental health officers, and parking wardens, to name but a few of these maladroit officers?

Commercial Street has an off-licence advertising vapes and alcohol opposite McDonald’s, where many of the city’s youths hang out, coupled with a gambling casino advertising to the same extent directly at these impressionable young minds.

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This leads me to ask what has become of our central conservation area? To liken it to the lights of Vegas might be pushing it, but come on!

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This is getting out of hand, with takeaways, barber shops and more off-licences all competing with ever bigger and brighter lighting signs. Then add in the delivery drivers all running into and out of takeaways leaving their engines running. Not a traffic cop to be seen. Engines running no matter who cares. Even the taxis sit there with their diesel engines running waiting for the next punter.

I totally despair. Unless we make some effort to control this dystopian nightmare society is going to break down to anarchy.

JEFFREY J HANCORN

Hereford