SIR — Last Sunday morning, travelling from Warren Bay to Watchet after the high winds and rain, we were forced to skirt around a large portion of hedge that had blown onto the road in West Street, adjacent to the new mobile housing development.

Now this is a very narrow section of road at the best of times, so we felt confident that the authorities in their wisdom would promptly send a man with a chainsaw to cut away the offending hedge, an operation that should have taken maybe ten minutes to complete.

Imagine our surprise then, when returning later in the day, to see that the hedge now had diversion signs around it making even more of a bottleneck.

Evidently someone had been dispatched with these signs but no chainsaw.

Thinking that it would surely be sorted by the end of the day we were very puzzled to see that several days later it had not been cleared.

I was very tempted to grab a chainsaw and do the blooming job myself.

Can anyone throw any light on why this was allowed to go on for so long, creating a dangerous hazard on this stretch of road?

George Ody,