tm Smyth, of Kingswear, writes: For the first time ever I write to my local councils and the local paper. I am a Kingswear resident and was awoken at 6am by loud blaring music and an accompanying 'black rapper, club-style' man shouting on a microphone. This lasted for one hour. I am disappointed to report that this was coming from the Britannia Royal Naval College. At 6.20am, I rang the number listed online for the BRNC which is a local number 01803 832141, which was answered by an Ministry of Defence call centre, and I was then put through to the gate at BRNC Dartmouth. I complained to the person who answered and they replied: 'We'll pass on your concerns.' Sorry, not good enough. The community supports the BRNC, quite rightly. We hear operational firing late in the evening and often have military bands etc, all of which, as it's a working military college, we all expect and admire. Not a problem at all. We take great pride in having the naval college here. However, a 6am, a one hour session of dancing to club and 1970s disco music accompanied by inane DJ rubbish is well out of order and utterly inconsiderate. Why do that? We had club music and old 1970s stuff, for example In the Navy and YMCA by the Village People and even the Hokey Cokey – including an encore where the DJ started them all off with: 'oooOOOHHH (getting louder all the while) the hokey cokey – c'mon all hold hands – oooOOOHHH the hokey cokey'. Inane DJ chatter accompanied all tracks by the way. I would be interested to know if this is going to happen at 6am every time there is a passing-out parade. I do hope not. I know the parade ground had the passing-out cadets taking part because – oh yes – they finished off with a loud singalong to Time to Say Goodbye. Presumably they all then got ready for the passing-out parade. I am seriously hacked off. I am not some oldie complaining. I am in my forties and a working person who has to get up and go to work every day. Losing an hour's sleep to this rubbish is really not on.