WE have been coming to Mylor Bridge as occasional visitors for the past four years and always include a day's visit to Falmouth. We prefer to leave our car at our accommodation in Mylor and travel to town on the bus.

On this visit we noticed a discrepancy between the timetable at the bus stop and the Fal River Links leaflet supplied at our holiday let. Fortunately, we went by the leaflet, because if we had only the timetable at the bus stop to go on we would have missed the bus by nearly an hour! A fellow traveller at the stop confirmed that it is an out-of-date timetable. All the lip-service to encouraging use of public transport is useless if whoever is responsible cannot even be bothered to see that timetables are correctly posted.

Having arrived in Falmouth we were amazed at the increase in traffic in the main shopping area since our last visit. Much of the traffic was inappropriately large delivery vehicles, which surely could be confined to the earlier hours of the morning before the majority of shoppers are out and about. It did rather spoil what had been planned as a leisurely pre-Christmas shop to have to keep cringing in doorways to avoid vehicles whose drivers seemed intent on ignoring our existence.

Carol and Dennis Davis, Burrow Rise, Bideford