I AM writing in response to the letter from W Ellis (Malvern) regarding the old Horseshoe Inn at Brooms Green (Your Letters, May 6).

It is great they would like to continue to involve themselves with the village. Although the pub is no longer there, the village hall has a fabulous name for holding fantastic functions and this month there is a wine-tasting night. The tickets are £5 per head, to include wine and local cheeses.

I also remember the Horseshoe Inn with its six regulars. What we all must remember is that the pub was on the market for 20 months and there were no takers. Because of today's drink-drive laws, the price of fuel, beer, spirits etc these out of the way pubs are no longer viable.

If the local council had agreed for a dining conservatory to be added when one person was interested, it might have been another story but it would have needed at least 50/60 covers.

The people who have bought the old pub did not rush in over anybody's heads but waited until the previous owners were making it obvious that they were never going to sell it as a pub.

Radio Gloucester visited the village and interviewed the villagers and they just do not want the pub to be re-opened. They know that if it did, the amount of traffic that would have to come down the single-track lane would be massive to sustain the pub.

Please leave this sleepy village and its residents alone and go and upset someone else. It is having a terrible impact on the villagers when there is only three local people who want it to re-open.

SUSAN SIMPSON, Belle Orchard, Ledbury.