SIR — Following an accident I have been confined to a mobility scooter for the last couple of months.

I would suggest to the complainers of Dunster that a better use of their time would have been to borrow a wheelchair or mobility scooter for a few days and visit the towns and villages of West Somerset.

They would soon come to realise the futility of replacing perfectly flat, unbroken and un-patched paving because of its colour.

I hope that they are all able to sleep well at night in the knowledge that they are responsible for wasting £100,000 of our (taxpayers’) money which could otherwise have been used to repair the broken paving elsewhere and make the lives of the many disabled a little better.

I am lucky, I will be walking again in the next few months, but many have to live with disability for the rest of their lives.

I wonder, also, how many tourists have either not visited Dunster this year or turned and left because they did not like the colour of the pavement? My guess is a number between nothing and zero!

Paul Humphries,

Quay West,