THIS week, the Rev G R Hargrove, has written two short letters on topics from last week’s issue.

MAY I, through your publication, express my sincere thanks to our town Mayor Jane White, on her support for the revived tradition of ‘Beating of the Bounds’ and to the town clerk Bill Reid, who has reinstated this quaint, centuries old, English, Christian custom, dating back to Anglo-Saxon times.

So many of our 2,000 years of Judeo Christian traditions, holidays and customs have been legislated out of existence, or quietly dropped so as not to offend non-Judeo Christians, that the very nature of our society has been changed, most of us would say, for the worst.

So well done Bill Reid and Jane White.

P.S. I do hope that the necessary ‘Risk Assessment’ procedures were carried out, or some Health and Safety muppet will try to stop future ceremonies taking place.

RE: “Where are the pretty flowers?” (Letters last week in which a reader bemoaned the fact the tub by the Princes Risborough sign was empty).

MRS Shirley Longstaff of Princes Risborough will be extremely fortunate if all that troubles her is the absence of flowers in the tub by the town’s name board.

When are we going to wake up to the disastrous financial situation the country is in and realise that massive savings of public money at every level are going to lead to cuts right across the board?

Perhaps Mrs Longstaff could plant some flowers in the tub herself and look after them, as her contribution to our nation’s financial plight.

Rev G R Hargrove,Fennels Farm Road, Flackwell Heath.