I am totally committed to ­getting the new ground being used as a car park back under our control. It is land held in common and owned by the ­residents of this town.

It might well need to be a car-parking space until we all learn to fly and bomb around on man drones or some such.

Rumour has it that South Hams District Council is ­thinking of selling out and handing car parking to one of the big car-parking firms and we will lose land that is ours and has been for centuries.

Yesterday, in the confusion that is the Slapton junction since the great storm, I stopped in the car park to pay my respects at the American war monument and I was pounced on by a traffic officer, who was the rudest and most offensive person I have met in 50 years – and I have met plenty!

It has only made me even more resolved to get rid of these martinets in black; and SHDC; and yes, eventually even the county totally.

Viva Dartmouth Town Council! Now let’s have ­everything we own back.

Kevin Pyne

Lake Street, Dartmouth