Last weekend my husband and myself visited our daughter who moved to Weymouth 15 years ago.

I have many happy childhood memories of Weymouth and have been a regular visitor for over sixty years.

When preparations were underway for the Olympics I thought my daughter and her husband were being a couple of grumbling residents regarding the vandalism of Weymouth seafront.

Although we have visited since the Olympics, the impact of what has taken place on the beautiful promenade and beach really came home to us last weekend.

No fairy lights strung from traditional lampposts - just ineffectual lazer beams that unless pointed out to us would have gone totally unnoticed.

The monstrous wooden refreshment outlets on the beach have taken the place of the lovely little refreshment kiosks and, the nail in the tourism coffin, the horrendous tower on the pier.

Weymouth has the best beach in the country and it has been totally vandalised by the town planners and action needs to be taken immediately to reinstate everything that has been removed and turn Weymouth back to the traditional seaside resort it always was and needs to be.

Janet Grant Ainsdale Gardens Grange Road Birmingham