Sir, I read the front-page news last week about the state of the Pulpit Hill viewpoint (‘Viewpoint is littered with rubbish’, The Oban Times, July 27) and feel I should add a little more to this sorry tale.
Not only is Pulpit Hill a rubbish dump, but it is Oban’s premier tourist attraction. McCaig’s Tower is likewise.
It helps, of course, that most of the drinking and eating fraternity lob their detritus over the edge of the viewing platform, where it is not so readily seen, though the holiday-makers can gaze down upon it while they take pictures of the view. Dumping, unfortunately, is not limited to rubbish, as the kind person who used the word in a slightly different sense on my garden path recently will know.