SIR — I am writing in response to your report about the residents of Stogursey and other villages in the front line of the nuclear new build at Hinkley Point (Free Press February 17).

To those looking forward to the promised benefits of EDF's plans, the concerns of these villagers about the damaging impact of the Hinkley development on their communities might be dismissed as mere nimbyism.

However, I'd like to support the villagers' campaign and expand it to endorse the principle of nimbyism.

Shouldn't we all be nimbys? If something is so damaging that we don't want it in our own back yard, then we can appreciate that nobody else wants it either - and nobody should have it forced on them.

This principle should apply locally to our West Somerset villages, nationally to our beautiful British countryside, and globally to our world - nobody has the right to wreck the planet for our descendants to inherit a wasteland.

We should say 'No!' to trashing back yards everywhere!

Caitlin Collins,

Cowbridge,

Timberscombe.