LETTER:Sepia shopping

From Mr Tony King

Sir: Neither Peter Popham in his original article (Magazine, "Doomsday for rural England", 27 May), nor Tesco's corporate affairs director, Frances Elliott, in her letter published on 9 June, has mentioned the irony that the Dorchester Tesco is decorated on the inside with atmospheric Edwardian sepia photographs of Dorchester's bustling centre with merchants and shoppers going about their business.

Tesco comforts its shoppers with the very atmosphere which the existence of the superstore is helping to destroy.

Yours faithfully,

TONY KING

London, N5