Is likely that Tony Buxton is most certainly living in the wrong town, Letters, August 3.

Dartmouth has always been a place where its residents try to live and let live.

I am registered disabled and I ride a bike very slowly out on the wide embankment which, if it were say in Ireland, would have a green bike symbol on the pavement warning others of this and, as many of our visitors walk mainly in the road, it seems a fair exchange.

I could have an electric disability cart or a free car but I like to get by as I think it’s a pride thing and, at 68, I am not ready for that just yet.

If Mr Buxton wants to sit on his balcony and spy on others, then Torquay is certainly the place to do it .

As for the local police not responding to his whinging, why would they?

They are busy people and if he had truly needed a police response for a serious matter, as I know personally, they would have been right there, as they were on a previous Sunday night when, if I had not been riding slowly on the pavement, I would likely to have been killed, as a motorist lost control just before the island that crosses over to the park.

Torquay is horrible –?I went to school there. Dartmouth is not and that is why Mr Buxton moved here.

Instead of lording it over us from those hideous-looking apartments, come snatching mackerel and have a yap and a coffee on the park.

Sitting around for too long watching stuff is the quickest way to get old and lose fitness when you reach our age.

Time is short, so use it. Moaning is fine, I do loads of it, mainly because there is so much good here in town to fight for and to want to keep. That is why you see people pay millions for properties –?even very odd properties.

And if you buy a property on a waterfront, where people have always scrubbed boats, promenade daily, giggle and crab, and vehicles pass by 24-7, it’s going to be both a beautful spot and a noisy.

How can it be anything else?

Go and meet the mob on the park, you won’t be a newbie for long. We say “if you want to sit by the fire then all you need do is help gather the wood”.

You are not surrounded by villains, Mr Buxton but by very bright, helpful and lovable rascals.

Kevin Pyne

Lake Street, Dartmouth