REFERENCE your item last Friday relating to David Mitchell, a local man, now twice nominated for the Booker Prize.

The book was not written on the New Mills Estate, but here in Hazle Close, the tale end of the Deer Park.

Those who give themselves the treat of reading Cloud Atlas will find Hazle Close mentioned.

I have no wish to attach myself to the coat tails of this young man's hard earned and well deserved success - his stay among us was short, his life experiences long - may I therefore be permitted to remain,

A PROUD ONE TIME NEIGHBOUR, Hazle Close, Ledbury.