Sir,

Further to your front-page news item (February 19 issue) regarding the ongoing saga of the notice-boards that have been inflicted upon our town; something is failing to add up here. When Tudor Square can be dug up, tarred over, and then dug up again, on an almost weekly (if not daily) basis, why on earth should it cost £5,000 to re-locate two notice-boards? Surely this minor feat could be accomplished in the blink of an eye with a couple of buckets of tarmac (diverted from Tudor Square?), all with the minimum of fuss and at a fraction of the cost suggested.

I must also take issue with the trite statement that implies that if a thing is modern it must by association also be of good design, forward-thinking and beautiful. After 20 years of gazing at Croft Court, I still do not find its 'modernity' to be a thing of beauty, (my apologies to Croft Court's residents). I can only think that I am not alone in this opinion, otherwise photos and postcards of this 'forward-thinking' end of Tenby would abound, instead of the ever-popular (but, by inference, backward-looking) views of the harbour and 'traditional' Tenby that can be seen on every calendar, advertisement, hoarding and television programme that promotes the glories of our mediaeval town.

As Gertrude Stein famously pointed out, " a rose is a rose is a rose" and these hideous notice-boards will always be nothing less or more than hideous notice-boards, however much we try to affix terms like 'modern artistic statement' to them.

Can I also query as to why we need the notice-boards in the first place? Their only function seems to be to advertise events at the De Valence where there are already two more than adequate notice-boards. Common sense and, more importantly, public opinion, dictate that they are moved, so let's have no more discussion, but simply get on with it and move them before we become a laughing stock.

Like Mr. Andrew Lowe, (Tenby Observer Letters page), I am willing to put my money where my mouth is and I should be more than happy to pledge £20 towards the cost of moving these ugly monstrosities to a location where they can do no further harm to Tenby's natural beauty.

Anne Bowles,

Seamens Rooms,

Tenby