Madam,

How many of the items, in the recent copy of the Cambrian News, made for dismaying reading.

One thing is very clear: Gwynedd has been sadly lacking in investment and the same can be said for today’s issues.

It is all wrong that the homeowners in Fairbourne should be left in such a way to fight their own corner. Who is not concerned about their own home – one small patch, theirs, one have, one treasured source of comfort and welcome?

How can they be abandoned to resorting to private measures for legal representation regarding the value of their homes?

There is also your report on the Cambrian Coast rail line and the importance of it to our community.

Of course it would go if the tide-line is going to further encroach and erode. How preposterous to think that Fairbourne would be an isolated casualty!

The sea is impartial and continual in even measure when it comes to destruction and devastation, as our history can testify.

Turning the page, we read of the fight Ffestiniog residents are having for reasonable health care and services where they are needed, in their own locality.

We jumped through all these hoops years ago and fought valiantly for fair local concerns. We should not have to be going through all this again. What Ffestiniog people are asking for is common sense.Lastly, the photograph of police personnel beside dangerous litter is disturbing. Obviously youngsters involved are bored. The litter in woodlands, particularly at night, is worrying enough, but lighting fires is certainly a deeper worry and will concern more than a few. If these youngsters do not have other channels for their ideas and interests, trouble ahead does not bear contemplation.

In conclusion, it would seem as though Gwynedd has many, many headaches and issues to be addressed, But is Gwynedd always to be the poor relation?

Yours etc

Jill Baxter

Abergynolwyn.