Editor: Aberystwyth has many features which are, in the most positive of ways, “old-fashioned”; they are part of its appeal.

I wonder, though, whether hosting Rali Ceredigion might be going a step too far.Inviting tribes of petrol-heads to career round courses at speeds in excess of that for which the roads were built seems like a 20th century enthusiasm rather past its sell-by date.

Perhaps I’m wrong.

Perhaps the lamented rope-maze site could be converted to an amphitheatre to host gladiatorial combat, pretty harmless, I suppose, although the inconvenience to the town’s residents may be prohibitive.

Roger Boyle,

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