Kevin Pyne, of Lake Street, Dartmouth, writes: I am of the opinion that the Dartmouth Chronicle is as well written as it has ever been. It is unfair of Francesca Johnson to describe it as the 'Chronic', Letters, June 19, but it's an easy jibe and easy to see that it takes little thought to come up with what is a very simple abbreviation.   As for the Business Improve­ment District, those people who are kicking off about it probably did not realise that they would be charged for store rooms as well their actual business premises and just can't see what it is about or are, like myself, worried about having the town so full of visitors that we won't be able to move or look after them in what has always been the caring way of Dartmouth. Believe me, you wouldn't get the likes of Linda Howard, of Dartmouth Pet Foods, writing letters if she did not rightly feel aggrieved. Of course people should be supported for doing their best in the community but they need to be doing what is best for that community and not seemingly steering it in a direct­ion that suits themselves. I was five when they started collecting for an indoor swimming pool – I was 65 last week. So I do hope to be able to dip at least my toes in before I die. As it has been said again and again recently, if we gave our money to projects that the town needs, such as a pool; a proper safe wide slipway; and a cable car into town – park and glide perhaps – and not to the BID, then most definitely discerning tourists would still come and we would be in control of our own destiny and not have some quango making us tip out our pockets for cash that we, in many cases, ain't got. So perhaps you should come down off the edge of the town, Ms Johnson, and meet those who like Dartmouth as it is and was. You need to live in a place long enough to see what is going on and then it's much easer to understand what it needs and why it trusts those that do speak for it and lead it. The Chronicle is a paper that I, for one, love and look forward to every Friday – eight in the morning with my porridge in the winter and muesli in the summer. Oh and I read the adverts too – which last week had everything from golf shoes to a Dracula outfit!