There will be a great many people worried about the lack of progress on the issue of public transport between Pennington and Lymington, especially on Saturday, which is market day.

Now Lymington has one of the best markets on the south coast (though I’m biased as I worked on it for several years) and many regular customers of the huge variety of market stalls live in Pennington.

So it was with great shock that I learned of the removal of 119 bus services which ran through many areas of Pennington as well as Lymington and New Milton.

Having been in contact with the south coast director of the Morebus company that runs the service I soon found out that the subsidies from Conservative-run Hampshire County Council to buses had been cut by 70 per cent.

I understand that the council has suffered cuts to its budgets but to remove the publicly funded 119 service on Saturdays will leave vulnerable people in Pennington who are unable to walk into Lymington, or walk to the bus stops by St Marks Church and Milford Road, helpless and isolated.

If the council really cannot afford to reinstate the service on Saturdays then perhaps it would be an ingenious idea to organise a flexible, bookable minibus service that can cater for these vulnerable people to allow them access to the market that they would have had before the 119 service was removed.

Local people need to know that they have not been abandoned by the people who are elected to represent them.

JACK DAVIES, Lymington.