SIR — I was enjoying a cup of coffee, browsing through last week's Free Press, when I turned to page 3 and had to ask myself if I was actually sitting in my conservatory in Minehead or in Hollywood reading the script for Erin Brockovich 2!

Our Government sent our young men and women to war in Iraq to prevent the possible use of 'weapons of mass destruction' and 'chemical warfare', didn't they?

So how is it that the EU, Environment Agency, EDF Energy and Government have no objections to the three permits applied for by EDF?

Hinkley Point C is to be built on a fault line where we have already had a tsunami and earthquake (the BBC has produced two documentaries on this very subject), and if that is not bad enough they now want to "discharge and dispose of small amounts of radioactive liquids, gaseous and solid wastes" and "discharge cooling water and trade effluents".

Of course they intend to set safe limits for this disposal, but that is not enough - they should not even be considering this in the first place.

How dare the powers that be even consider it - would they take the same waste and dump it regularly in Downing Street or on the Mall? Of course they wouldn't!

And what about the fish and wildlife, if only they could write, I am sure they would be in contact with you also.

Surely I can't be your only reader who is appalled at this idea? Can nobody see the wood for the trees - while we still have eyes and trees that is!

Sally Kuhlmann,

Old Ford Road,

Minehead.