ALTHOUGH I now live in Hampshire, I still receive the Penarth Time. Imagine my surprise when opening my copy dated October 9, the front page article on the five ladies complaining about the bus time table.

I spent all my childhood living on the seafront. My father owned Forte’s Cafe and we lived in Rock Villa one of the two Victorian villas on the seafront. The bus service then was exactly the same as it is now yet we all managed. The steamers where more frequent then the buses.

Don’t these women realise how privileged they are to live where they do without whinging about the lack of a Sunday bus service. If they are desperate to get into the town, why don’t they share a taxi, it can’t be that expensive to go to and from the town, with three sharing.

I now live in a very tiny rural village; the nearest town is five mile away, the nearest cities being 17 miles.

Our bus service starts at 9am on Monday to Saturday, every two hours finishing at 6pm and 4pm on Saturday. No service on Sunday’s or Bank Holiday’s.

Also a few months ago there was a report published about someone seeing a dolphin. When I was a child, they were a very common sighting out towards the sandbank. We always know them as porpoise not dolphins.

Mrs Marguerita Skelton

Hampshire