A FEW weeks ago cement works' lorries started using an old hangar on the Keevil airfield to store and then remove bags of cement.

To access the hanger they have to go up Church Street and The Strand, which is a conservation area and in one place is only 11ft wide, and pass within 2ft of a listed cottage.

At times 44-ton articulated lorries have to reverse out onto the main road as they are unable to pass one another, and when some lorries have taken a wrong turn they have to reverse, damaging the grass verge in front of the church and on another occasion knocking down a wall in Vicarage Lane at 5am on a Sunday morning.

Mr Hutchinson of Westbury Cement wrote to me saying it hoped to restrict the lorries to the hours of 7am-5pm.

So much for his assurance as this morning before 6am lorries had already started to rattle up The Strand, as they do on most mornings.

This activity is taking place at the same time as Wiltshire County Council is resurfacing the High Street.

Indeed it is traffic Bedlam caused by the stupidity of using an unsuitable location to store cement.

If it can't gas us with the fumes from the chimney as they do, the next best thing is diesel fumes from their lorries.

R LITTLE

Steeple Ashton