MOST locals in Chepstow would know the brown sign on the motorway directs visitors to Tintern Abbey, Monmouth, away from Chepstow. 
Yet we often read bring back tourists to High Street, often your local papers report this message, and mean well by doing just this. 
How can visitors be encouraged to come to Chepstow High Street when after the weekend we all know it looks like a battle ground once again. 
Once again this Sunday all day rubbish bags were all over the square near Barclays Bank. 
The only visitors soon to our town will be rats. 
All the paper bags are open, all over the place. 
This has happened lots of times.

Brian Halter
Buttington Road
Sedbury
Chepstow