SIR,

On a visit from Scotland to Usk I read with interest the letter "True County Facts" (11 February).

I sympathise with your correspondent's view that the Beacon seems "Monmouth-centric", but I'm sure you'll take heart to learn this is not a unique phenomenon.

Some time ago I drove the 23 miles from my then home village of Tighnabruaich, Argyll, to the town of Dunoon to discuss with the editor of the Dunoon Observer & Argyllshire Standard the coverage given by that paper  to the conservation of Tighnabruaich Pier, an issue considered by many to be pivotal to tourist trade on the Firth of Clyde.

Note the title of that local paper: Dunoon Observer "& Argyllshire Standard". The editor's response was that, yes, they might consider covering something important from "an outlying area", this a village just a score miles distant and well within the paper's purported catchment of Argyll.

You are never alone!

Ian Williams

(Oban, Scotland)