With the disheartening closure of the last remaining bank in Dartmouth, I feel this points up a quite serious matter for all small towns throughout the country.

It’s not just the heartless bankers in the City of London and their lack of sensitivity but I feel we are nearing the lower end for support for our communities. Whether it be social and health care, public transport, bank access or being pushed into online this and that, it is this gradual dehumanising of society that seems to be unstoppable.

Our elected politicians, sitting in the Westminster club, seem blind to the unease building up in the public and the obvious danger to social cohesion.

We need good leaders now but I don’t see anyone on the horizon.

John Kimble

Old Mill Creek, Dartmouth