The following is a cutting out of the Daily Telegraph from last year.
CARAVANS-THE UGLY TRUTH
Sir,
Let us hope the ban on caravans using the outside two lanes of the M5 around Bristol is the start of a vigorous persecution of these absurd trailers and their ridiculous owners.
When they are moving they hold up the traffic in a thoroughly selfish manner and when they are parked they are an eyesore. Their contribution to British tourism is marginal, the owners usually fill them up from their local supermarket before departure and restrict their local shopping to milk and a few eggs.
In addition caravans are environmentally unfriendly and dangerous, given that their inexperienced drivers rarely take them out on the roads, and then waste thousands of hours of other peoples time as we sit watching them wind their snail like way to the coast.
Surely if we are unable to ban these trailers we should restrict their movement on the roads to the dead of night. Harry Cotterell
Hereford.
Now the only Harry Cotterell I know locally is a Hooray Henry who has a large estate just outside of Hereford. If it was him who wrote this letter the family are of the horsey set having regular point to point events on their land. If so, how he has the nerve to complain when the local roads are chock a block with horse boxes God only knows. Then again in a bigot like thats head, they would be experienced drivers. Unfortunately I never saw if there were any replies in support of caravans but I would hardly think too many vanners read the Telegraph so I think not.
CARAVANS-THE UGLY TRUTH
Sir,
Let us hope the ban on caravans using the outside two lanes of the M5 around Bristol is the start of a vigorous persecution of these absurd trailers and their ridiculous owners.
When they are moving they hold up the traffic in a thoroughly selfish manner and when they are parked they are an eyesore. Their contribution to British tourism is marginal, the owners usually fill them up from their local supermarket before departure and restrict their local shopping to milk and a few eggs.
In addition caravans are environmentally unfriendly and dangerous, given that their inexperienced drivers rarely take them out on the roads, and then waste thousands of hours of other peoples time as we sit watching them wind their snail like way to the coast.
Surely if we are unable to ban these trailers we should restrict their movement on the roads to the dead of night. Harry Cotterell
Hereford.
Now the only Harry Cotterell I know locally is a Hooray Henry who has a large estate just outside of Hereford. If it was him who wrote this letter the family are of the horsey set having regular point to point events on their land. If so, how he has the nerve to complain when the local roads are chock a block with horse boxes God only knows. Then again in a bigot like thats head, they would be experienced drivers. Unfortunately I never saw if there were any replies in support of caravans but I would hardly think too many vanners read the Telegraph so I think not.
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