YESTERDAY morning I was walking my dog along the promenade between Frontierland and the Midland Hotel. There were two young women on horseback on the beach. I realised that one of them had allowed their horse to foul on the beach and they were leaving the beach without making any attempt to remove the horse droppings. I walked up towards them, as they were now on the promenade to ask them why they had failed to do anything about their animals fouling up the beach in this way. Their reply was to simply ignore me and they just rode off.

I saw some council workers cleaning up the beach towards the Midland Hotel, so enquired with them as to how I could contact the person in charge of the beach that day to alert them to the fact that these horse-riders had failed to clean up the horse excrement. They explained that I needed to speak to the person in charge who was driving along the promenade in a blue van. I spoke to him and explained that these two women on horseback had left horse excrement on the beach and were no proceeding along Central Drive.

I do not know if any action was taken, but if not I would like to know why not? There is too much emphasis put onto dog owners as being enemy No 1 with regard to the cleanliness of our beaches. If one contrasts the size of horse excrement compared to that of the average 'pooch' there is no contest as to who is the worst offender when the relevant individual fails to take responsibility for cleaning up their animal's act.

Diane Ananda-Bodhi

Marine Road West

Morecambe