Sir,
Not far from here there is a town that in the Middle Ages was known better as Bear Town. At that time it decided that it needed an essential attraction, a bear pit. So they sold the Parish Chained Bible and could afford both the bear and the pit.
Tenby appears to have similar aims, but there is a huge sculptured (albeit plastic) dragon and a glass dome on St. Catherine's Fort, even though it meant agreeing to the closure of its Cottage Hospital.
The population so badly need their plastic dragon that they are quite happy to allow the NHS to cash in on the sale of a prime development site - the Cottage Hospital - and give nothing in return.
All the inhabitants of the town knew that the existing clinical service at Gas Lane would have had to be extended, even had the Cottage Hospital remained in business. So from the NHS property sale the town will gain nothing.
So please let us have a show of hands, firstly from those who want to town to have a Cottage Hospital, secondly from those who want the plastic dragon.
Ivor Jenkins,
23 Dombey Road,
Poynton,
Cheshire.