SIR - Is Stephen Hugh-Jones, who takes Chris Gillham to task over parking in central Winchester (Chronicle letters, June 14) referring to the same city centre that I see almost every day? I think not!

Those parents lucky enough to have access to a car are more likely to take their children into said car and head for an out-of-town supermarket with free parking, than to bother with the city centre at all.

Nor is the vast bulk of city centre traffic driven by elderly or disabled folk or any others for whom city centre parking may arguably be essential, but by reasonably fit, healthy individuals whose ability to walk, cycle or take the bus is encumbered only by their slavish addiction to the motor car.

I wonder if it has occurred to Mr Hugh-Jones that the struggling mother about whom he is so patronising, may be made of far sturdier stuff than he imagines.

If such women do still exist, then they and their offspring, I dare suggest, represent far greater hope for the future of the human race than does the pathetic pack of weaklings and whingers of all genders who would sooner carry on polluting the planet, than risk messing up their hairdo by walking a few hundred yards in the rain!

Frank Williams, The Dome, Morestead Road, Winchester.