WPBC’s tourism and culture spokesman, Cllr Jason Osborne, lazily spins an oft-quoted canard about Weymouth’s "world class beach" (Echo, October 2).

A mere 15 minutes of Googling would inform him that some surveys don’t even rank Weymouth as having the best beach in Dorset.

Objectifying the subjective is impossible, of course, but Weymouth barely troubles the scorers on many UK Best Beach surveys.

And, it goes without saying, it scores "nul points" on any World’s Best Beach list.

A few sun rays of hope come from The Beach Guide where it ranks as third-best Dorset beach, and the much-quoted Trip Advisor survey where it’s ranked second behind Woolacombe.

Realistically Woolacombe, Rhossili Bay, Porthcurno, Bamburgh and Sandbanks would argue it out for top banana.

Is Weymouth’s a good town beach?

Absolutely.

A jewel?

Most certainly.

A clean, safe beach for kids?

Indubitably.

But if Cllr Osborne, wearing his rose-tinted Ray-Bans, can sit back in his deck chair, drafting his tourist brochures, truly believing he is on the British Copacabana then he really needs to get out more.

I have been to a good number of the world’s best beaches and, trust me, it takes more than just sand to qualify.

I realise this slur on Weymouth’s manhood will be unpopular, but Weymouth needs to be realistic about its place in the world.

Believing its own publicity and thinking "life’s a beach" merely leads to complacency.

Steve White hollywoodlaan 148 Almere Netherlands