WHAT an eyesore the Belmont island roundabout has become, with weeds, rubble, debris and thistles some three feet high. In contrast, the Tesco roundabout is beautifully kept, with flowers, mowed lawns, and a weeping willow tree in keeping with the beauty and serenity of our fine city. Does anybody care about the southern approaches to Hereford? Your correspondent Judith Brown reminds us about the ‘derelict heap that used to be Campions Restaurant’. As with the grave of John Venn, is Hereford destined to become a broken and untended city, or will public opinion force those in power to act in order to halt the obvious decline into the ‘slough of despond’ which threatens its citizens’ at least in the south of the city?

REV DR R S MURRIN, Peterchurch.