SIR, I bet all the NIMBYs (Not In My Back Yarders) on the Dixton Road will be celebrating the headline story in your March copy about the Natural Resource Wales concocted exaggeration about flooding on the proposed site for McDonald's. It's not just a fast food restaurant wanting to go there but three other businesses as well, creating jobs for local people, bringing business to town. Is Monmouth so posh that we can turn down these businesses and jobs? Well, NIMBYs, now that you are all aware that you live in a high risk flood area just wait until your next insurance quotes come through your letterboxes (that's if your insurers will still take you as a customer). I was turned down by three insurance companies because of being in a 'high risk flood area' and my property is 200 yards away from St Mary's Church so if I was flooded the whole of Monmouth would be under water. Another point I would like to raise is about all the stories you published written by youngsters in schools giving their views. If they were picked up by their mums and dads after school and told: "Come on, let's go to McDonald's," would they say: "We can't go there because a King was born in Monmouth"? I don't think so. Peter Smith (Monmouth)