Brian Parker, of Victoria Road, Dartmouth, writes:

In recent times this paper has become a cracking good read.  It has many items of interest.  One such is the letters page.  There is a great spread of subject matter, sometimes well presented and argued and sometimes just not making sense at all.  

This week I have learned something. The absence of sense in a letter does not necessarily mean the writer is at fault.  

Last week you published a letter from me in which the last paragraph was gobbledegook.  My friends will rib me and say that this is a sign of the rot setting in. To them I say that, 'its not me Guv, it's the paper'.  

In laying out the page you have pasted in a repeat of words from an earlier paragraph, making a nonsense.  

Understandably, it is acceptable for you to edit contributions; mangling them into incoherence is not.

Editor's note: We apologise, Mr Parker, and indeed confirm that the goobledegook was not yours but in fact ours.