I have been campaigning for more than two years to have donated benches in the High Street in Marlborough.

I have been to Marlborough council meetings and have written to my local MP Claire Perry to get help.

My wife Heather Dobie was a kidney transplant patient and the people of Marlborough collected over £10,000 within a couple of months to buy a dialysis machine to have at home.

Heather was luckily given a wonderful transplant so the machine was used at the Oxford Kidney Unit where she used to travel three times a week.

So in her memory and thanks to the Marlborough folk I want to donate a seat of thanks in her memory.

One of my suggested positions for the benches was by The White Horse bookshop on the Bulge by the flower stand and letterbox.

I was informed that a number of bicycle racks were to be cemented in there so it was not possible to have seating there.

I now see that before the mop fair the recently fixed stands had to be dug out and removed and the holes concreted over.

If my proposed donated seat had been bolted to the ground on the Bulge it could easily, at much less cost, have been removed and re-fixed/bolted after the fairs had gone.

I think these bicycle stands were a complete waste of our money as there are stands already fixed to the flower stand.

I have other Marlborough folk interested in donating benches in the High Street which I know many people agree are badly needed, not only for tourists, but school children and old folk, especially by the bus stop.

Mickey Dobie, Marlborough.