Street preacher

HE'S back! No, not Elvis, James Dean or anyone you'd welcome, but our unfriendly neighbourhood street preacher.

I can't speak for others, but I am personally offended when I hear his tapes playing incessantly opposite Poundland as he stands there with a miserable face handing out leaflets. Surely this is tantamount to noise pollution?

Would someone be afforded the same tolerance if they were representing the Church of Satan? I think not, although to me it's all made up nonsense and would annoy me equally whichever deluded buffoon was doing it.

So do we, as a community, have the right to obstruct the public highway and play spoken word tapes at an annoying volume? I was thinking maybe next Saturday I could play some Bill Hicks recordings next to him, a man who spoke more sense than any religious preacher ever did.

ALAN BAGNALL

Alma Street, Weston