YES, we do want two Mop Fairs a year. This has been a tradition in Marlborough for many, many years.

Having been a resident in Marlborough for 59 years, I know the excitement they bring to children, I speak from my own children, I speak from my own childhood then as a mother of six and now a grandmother of 11, even if you can only afford to walk down and look at the lights.

I do not feel comparative "newcomers" to the town should be allowed to try and change what is part of our way of life.

I am sure they do enough trade on the other 363 days a year to compensate.

WENDY NASH

Five Stiles Road

Marlborough