AS a Christian for 60 years, I feel sad and sorry for the wretched individual who just cannot stomach two or three minutes of prayers prior to Bideford Council meetings.

Nobody would wish to inflict anything on anybody, as we have all been born with the gift of free will.

If you want to read the newspapers, or wash the car, or go shopping on a Sunday, instead of attending church, that is the right of everyone! But to seek to destroy something that is part of our fabric and heritage as a country, observed by both monarch and governments, is totally out of order!

What do others readers think?

Tony Smith

Lydford