Sir – It is fascinating to see that someone has compared Carterton and Brize Norton to Russia and Ukraine.

My dad spent 24 years on Brize Norton Parish Council, 12 of them as chairman.

Fred Faulkner and Ken Hadland (two lovely and sincere men) spent all of those years fighting to keep Brize Norton, the village which they both loved, from being taken over by Carterton, so this has been going on for donkey’s years.

I’m glad that neither of them can see the way this village is now being treated.

If Carterton needs houses, then build them in Carterton.

There is lots of room where the RAF flats and houses have been pulled down and where the Osprey and the garage were.

Where they are threatening to build houses is in Brize Norton parish, not Carterton.

Why Carterton Town Council thought that building another supermarket in Carterton was a good idea I will never understand, and it was very unfair on the Co-op, which has been in Carterton as long as I can remember and has done a lot of good in the town.

If they had put time, effort and money into getting the crossroads pedestrianised, as it should have been at least 30 years ago – that was the whole idea of Upavon Way and Wycombe Way, which was never finished, to make a ring road – they could by now have a nice little shopping centre, but with the traffic that tears through every day and the nightmare of crossing and recrossing the roads to visit all the different establishments, it is never going to be more than it is now.

Carol Faulkner, Daubigny Mead, Brize Norton