SURELY I'm not the only motorist who felt stressed and annoyed at being unable to park because two car parks were taken up by the yearly arrival of 'The Mop'.

I can hear the traditionalists rushing for pen and paper even as I speak, but wait a while and listen before you label me as yet another 'Victor Meldrew'. I know a charter was granted in the year dot or whenever, but who could have foreseen the traffic problems of small towns like Evesham. Parking is always difficult, more so for disabled drivers like myself who can't walk far. To reach my doctors surgery on Merstow Green by car and park nearby was impossible on Wednesday.

Surely a compromise could be agreed, I'm not against the mop or any other fair being held, far from it, but could they not be held on the meadow by the river, a beautiful setting and close enough as to be accessible to all, without this enormous disruption to everyday life of people going about their everyday activities.

MRS JUNE HAWLINS, The Old Shakespeare, Harvington.