No doubt many residents of Weymouth and district take for granted the fact that every day a tractor trails up and down Weymouth beach collecting primarily seaweed and other debris left around.

Some may not even know or care.

Either way, its effectiveness is clearly something that enhances the beach and gives not only tourists but those of us who care, satisfaction.

On Saturday, I spent the day in Swanage. It would be fair to say that more than 50 per cent of the beach was almost a foot thick in weed and it spread inland from the waters edge like a rolled out carpet, making 90 per cent of the sand unusable.

Aside from the fact this stank, (as seaweed does, which some may not find objectionable), tourists had no choice but to stay away from the main part of the beach.

Of course it might have been a one-off, but even so, I am sure having plans to move this should have been implemented long ago.

This would never happen here in Weymouth.

C Hobbs, Doncaster Rd, Weymouth