AS a member of the Stow-on-the-Wold branch of the Royal British Legion I take great exception to the comments in your issue of June 24 on Stow RBL weekend June 12 and 13.

This gives a sour note to what was a most enjoyable and well organised event to which I feel very privileged to have been invited.

As I understood it our chairman Mr Derek Arthurs and his committee decided to organise a lunch for those of us who was serving in the armed services on June 6, 1944. This was to be followed by dancing in the Square that evening and a parade and church service the following afternoon also an exhibition of memorabilia the following week. This was on their own initiative and not at the direction of RBL headquarters or any other body. It could not be held the previous weekend June 5 and 6 since our president was in Normandy. It was not intended as a civic event like the annual remembrance parades.

I am not sure what was meant by "We just had the D-Day landings thing on Saturday" I presume this refers to our lunch.

Had the Mayor and coun Gibson wanted to attend the church service, the climax of a most memorable weekend they would have been welcome. I hope they both went to the exhibition which was well worth seeing.

PETER CATOR, The Barn, Condicote.