Thanks to everyone who read the last chapter and especially to those who took the time to review. Sorry to have taken so long to update and happy New Year. I think this character is the spiritual twin of 'Disgusted Tunbridge Wells'.

Dear Sir or Madam

I am writing to express my dissatisfaction relating to the handling of events at my local market place on Saturday last.

As you are no doubt aware members of the public were prevented from entering the entire area for a period of some hours. We only discovered this when a very offensive young gentleman barred our normal route, only vouchsafing the reason for this peremptory decision after I had made several protests.

Despite his excuse, which was that a film company were doing some location shooting for a new drama, I still saw no obvious reason as to why I should not proceed since I only wished to purchase an item from one of the outer stalls. My contention being that at worst I would look as if I was an extra. He proved unwilling to listen to any reasonable argument whatsoever and instead chose to block my way while issuing me with the instruction to 'push off Grandad'. He further compounded this offence by refusing to give me his name when I informed him of my intention to report him to his superiors.

Leaving aside this thoroughly unwarranted rudeness I would like an explanation as to why no warning of closure was given to regular customers at least a week in advance. In addition no signs were displayed regretting the inconvenience caused. This suggests to me a total disregard for the welfare of the public at large.

This justification of this last comment was confirmed by an incident that I witnessed from a distance when a respectable looking woman, who had apparently strayed into the restricted area, was accosted by a pair of men. Although the woman was quite clearly planning to exit the market she was prevented from doing so. My wife, who was also present and who can verify everything I saw, was horrified to see one of the men snatch the woman's phone from her. I assume this was to check that she had not obtained any authorised footage. That might just be acceptable, what followed however was not. Although I did not see them do so I can only assume that one or both men assaulted the woman, my grounds for believing this being the audible shriek of pain she emitted some seconds after the men approached her. This distressing incident seems to have been noticed by one of the actors, dressed as an army officer, who emerged from a van to remonstrate with the men. It would seem that he, like myself, was prevented from coming to her aid as we helplessly watched the two culprits hustle her away. I would describe their entire demeanour thorough out as menacing while the woman was plainly upset and confused.

To have treated an innocent member of the public in such as way is indefensible and I therefore have reported this matter to the police, along with the near assault upon myself. I have been assured that my complaint will be passed to the appropriate authorities and I therefore expect you to make amends by cooperating fully with the attempt to bring the aggressors to justice.

Yours faithfully

Charles Hopwood (Mr)

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