DEAR EDITOR - Why remove more A-boards from our local shopkeepers. A-boards have been part of trading for hundreds of years. These traders are giving good quality goods and service to our town. We need these people.

I guess it's an easy option to pick up a few A-boards rather than banning the multitude of illegal posters which blight the area from Longbridge - Redditch - Wychbold and the whole of Bromsgrove, mainly posters for "three piece suites - Aston Fields".

There are hundreds of them on every traffic light and many lampposts.

If the A-boards are considered a hazard to one or two pedestrians, and I do not think they do, how about the thousands of motorists who have their eyes taken to the street furniture posters when they should be observing other cars and traffic light sequence?

Bromsgrove is a first class town, the council is allowing it to appear very, very second class.

I am not the only one who feels this way. I have written before as I know others have, only to receive a short letter giving inadequate excuses.

Please look after our town traders and save our byways from illegal and unsightly advertising.

M Harper

Lickey End, Bromsgrove