SIR — Your report 'Care provider apologises over campaign' (Free Press, August 24) came as a surprise to me as I, too, had received a letter from Mrs Flanagan.

I was a bit surprised that Somerset Care was offering help when, in my experience caring for an elderly friend some years ago, it was not at all easy to find a place in a good care home.

I certainly was not distressed.

As I am a regular visitor to Musgrove Park Hospital eye clinic, I am sometimes approached by a kind person from the Care of the Blind people and am grateful. Though not yet blind, I put Mrs Flanagan's letter in the same category, as Somerset Care is a non-profit-making association, too.

I've lived in Minehead for 30 years and in the neighbourhood before that. I have visited people at Wyndham House, known a number of people who went there and known friends and relatives of some of them and I have heard nothing but good of this establishment. Being well into my 80s myself, I might yet go there.

K Rosenau,

Clanville Road,

Minehead.