In a crumbling world, it is a pleasure to ask you to publicise three good deeds that my my wife and I experienced in Hereford on Wednesday, July 18.

While parked at the Gaol Street car park, the attendant told me he had noticed that one of our tyres was flat. He not only thus saved us from the possibility of driving off in a dangerous condition but later came back with rubber gloves as I wrestled with wheel changing.

I found the wheel nuts very tight and, while vainly kicking the tool to release them, out of the blue, I was approached by a stranger who turned out to be a mechanic - who insisted on taking over. He too had difficulty, but eventually succeeded. He then helped inflate the spare but, before I could pay him, he declined and walked away.

That same day, while my wife was shopping, in her agitation at all that we had faced recently, she left her glasses somewhere. Bereft when trying to read on return, we failed to trace them by phone but next day recovered them from Chave & Jackson. They had kindly kept them, anticipating eventual return. All this restores some faith in our fellow man As we know none of these good people by name could you please tell them, and others, how much we appreciate their kindness.

Mervyn and Virginia Morgan, Bulls Hill, Walford, Ross-on-Wye.