SIR — I do not wish to be a damp squib, but please let's tell it as it is.

Reading your report "Drive to attract more foreign visitors to West Somerset" (Free Press November 4) I agree that to survive we do need the support of foreign visitors to Exmoor.

Antony Brunt and John Turner believe the West Somerset Railway and Exmoor Falconry will lure them to our area, and Dunster and Dunster Castle may well do.

Of course, a decent road to our little paradise would also bring more tourists, as would good hotels and good restaurants. 

In the same issue, you report that Somerset County Council's £2.3 million transport includes a trio of road improvements for West Somerset.

Thank goodness nothing has been signed and sealed as the biggest scheme would be the installation of a pedestrian crossing (gee wizz) - the mind boggles at what the other improvements are!

Why would foreign tourists want to visit our part of the world when they have such beautiful countries of their own with great access roads?

Unless the council comes to terms with this fact, we will be left behind. Most people that I have spoken to over the years prefer to go to Devon or Cornwall. 

Remember, in business you cannot take out what you do not put in.

Barbara Hawker,

Minehead.