MADAM, The loss of the Big Cheese event really is a disaster to Herefordshire's economy.
An event of this magnitude would have brought national and international visitors as competitors, supporters and so many groups interested in local food production plus wonderful press and TV coverage. Many hotels and guesthouses had been fully booked in advance, now this has all been lost due to the incompetence of Hereford-shire Council.
Tourism is worth over £130 million to Herefordshire's economy, the spin off from such a major event would have been marvellous.
Event organiser, Juliet Harbutt, rightly laid the blame on the council, saying 'surely somebody must have known the Castle Green was a Saxon burial ground with restrictions on hammering tent poles into consecrated turf etc'.
Herefordshire Partnership is apparently attempting to move heaven and earth to attract another such event here but bad publicity, total inefficiency on our behalf spreads throughout the organisation world very quickly and I feel a miracle is needed in order to put Hereford back on the event world map.
JENNIE LAYTON,
Grafton Villa Farm, Grafton.
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