LETTER : Stop motoring through villages

Sir: I read with dismay Nicholas Gregory's letter (12 April), in which he urged motorists to leave the motorways and rediscover the joys of the B-roads.

While Mr Gregory and his like may enjoy trundling along the B-roads - or, as is frequently the case, tearing along the B-roads - residents of those towns and villages he pollutes with his fumes and noise would not share this view. Ambling through the countryside without a good purpose might have been fine when six cars a day disturbed a village, but those days are long gone.

Lynne Curry

Clevedon,

Somerset