I AM glad to see that the Deputy Mayor of Ledbury, Geoff Knock, has his priorities right as regards the allocation of police time within the town (Malvern Gazette & Ledbury Reporter, January 19).

The Boxing Day meet has long been known as a venue for vandalism and street crime, probably owing to the number of pensioners and families with young children who attend it, all of them determined to get drunk and cause trouble. I suppose that, as usual, the police were more interested in answering 999 calls than pursuing the current Government policy, namely turning law-abiding country folk into criminals.

Mrs K Chester-Lamb, Hyde Lane, Upton-upon-Severn.