MY partner took me shopping to Gloucester Quays last week and I was shocked, disgusted and ashamed to live in Hereford when I saw the phenomenal amount of litter on the roadside and in the hedges en route, until we got into Gloucestershire where it was greatly reduced.

For months I have been watching litter mount up that has been dumped in the brook from which Hereford’s Brook Retail Park gets its name. It will only take a week of torrential rain and the water will not be able to get under the arch, and what will happen then?

This litter has been dumped in the bushes for years and never removed by council contractors.

PATRICIA JOHNSTONE Staunton-on-Wye