FAR be it from me to disagree with Winston Churchill, who although right about a lot, wasn't right about everything.

The remark attributed to him about Great Malvern being a graveyard with a bus running through it may or may not have been his true opinion.

But for a bus to have run through some oaf would have had to have bulldozed a road through in the first place.

What Malvern and its fondly remembered hills represents to those of us who have sought solace and solitude there is a pearl of too great a price to be bartered, and for what?

I came across the absurd notion for a cable car on the hills while looking up properties in the area, and it took me some time to realise it wasn't an April Fool's joke.

Buses through graveyards might be one thing, but rattling excrescences careering through Paradise, destroying both peace and prospect, is quite another.

This is not a matter of mere conservation verus development. It's far more important than that.

Don't do it, Malvern. Those hills were made for walking.

Paddy McEvoy

Co Down

Ireland