Sir,

From birth I have been proud to be Tenby born, Pembrokeshire born and British born. My education started in the Council School and carried on at Greenhill School. I had the advantage of excellent teachers who used English as their main language, were happy to teach us in that same language.

We were not oddities, our county had always been based on English language, apart from a minority fringe of north Pembrokeshire who lived abutting the Cardiganshire border.

Now Tenby and other county towns are being forced to accept orders from a county council that does not even know Pembrokeshire. Tenby has to close its infant school because it is English language based and be replaced by a Welsh language medium primary school. Pembrokeshire likes being itself, it needs a Welsh language basis like a sore thumb!

I do not know Clr. George or his background, but he does not know the county he is supposed to represent. Pembrokeshire was evolved from the English, Normans, Flemish and a minority of Celts who sneaked in during the Roman era.

Would the Tenby Town Council now publish a list of the inhabitants in the town who use English as their sole language, use it as their main language and use Welsh as their main language. Tenby should then decide whether they want that change of schools.

Ivor Jenkins,

Poynton,

Cheshire.