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SIR - Some of you will have read the letter to the Daily Telegraph (May 3) about a reader being amused about the welcome sign at Winchester's railway station.

It states: Winchester - home of Hampshire County Council.' The writer of the letter went on to bemoan there is no mention of King Alfred, Jane Austen, St Swithun, or other worthier inhabitants.

We would all probably agree about the rather egotistical attitude of our county council, if one may consider a group' so to be.

However, it does betray the unattractive propaganda which so often escorts a council when it forgets itself, launching into self regard and pomposity.

Why should we consider ourselves welcomed by a council, town or county? Each time I arrive home on the train, I share the feeling of the Telegraph correspondent What indeed, about Jane Austen, St Swithun and King Alfred, creator of the English language?

Could a few inches be spared on the cathedral perhaps?

Could we have a city wide competition, open to all, students and adults alike, to design such a welcoming billboard for both platforms on a station handling hundreds of thousands of passengers each year?

There actually is more to see than the headquarters of Hampshire County Council!

Nicholas Henty-Dodd, Bartholomew Close, Winchester.

2:38pm Thursday 15th May 2008

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