SIR,

What a pity that the departure of all those caravans and caravanners was not greeted by the residents of Monk Street and Osbaston road with anything other than feelings of enormous relief and 'good riddance'.

You caravanners must have had a lovely time. Loud games, even louder announcements, and monumentally loud karaoke in the evening and nighttime. It does not, perhaps, occur to you that there are people who do not share your tastes and do not want them imposed on them.

Amazingly enough, there are people who like to sit quietly in their gardens and enjoy their bank holiday without having other's selfish loud pleasures spoil their enjoyment. Extraordinary as it may seem to you, others may have even more sophisticated tastes in music than yours and find drunken , tuneless karaoke at deafening volume a little hard to stomach. A little consultation with the residents might not go amiss another time.

Robert Hadaway

(Monmouth)