HIGHBRIDGE has been described as ‘ghastly’, ‘dreadful’, and ‘unattractive’ by a disgruntled resident, who also labelled the town council as ‘pusillanimous and ineffectual’.

Jane Dawson, from Huntspill Road, Highbridge, has written a letter to the newspaper outlining her dismay at the current state of the town.

She highlighted the old Highbridge Hotel, the tattoo parlour, and the library as examples of ‘the town’s scandalous decline’.

She wrote: “If you want to hear the sound of a town dying on its feet, just pop along to Highbridge in Somerset, I promise you won’t be disappointed.”

She believes that the arsonists that burned the ghastly old Highbridge Hotel down ‘actually did us a favour’.

“It is just a seemingly permanent abomination and a symbol of the town’s scandalous decline.”

The tattoo parlour is also described as ‘probably the ugliest shop frontage in Highbridge.’

“This dreadful place was truly frightful when it was open and should never have been allowed by the pusillanimous and ineffectual Burnham and Highbridge Town Council in the first place.”

She also berated the number of shops that have closed down in recent times, only to be replaced by ‘kebab and takeaway food joints’.

“If any more places close down, Highbridge will start to resemble one of those ghost towns that you used to see in those old Wild West films.”

“We don’t even have a doctor’s surgery in the town, like we used to, but instead we have the Highbridge Medical Centre, about two miles away, that is actually nearer to Burnham-On-Sea than it is to Highbridge.”

She also describes the town as lawless, with ‘no police to be seen anywhere’, and cars and vans speeding at all hours.

Highbridge library is described as a ‘pointless irrelevence’ and empty most days, even on the days when it is meant to be open.

“For some perverse reason the lights are left on all night, every night, at taxpayers’ expense.”

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