With all due respect to Dave White (There is no flag for all of Dorset', Echo, May 8) I do believe that I have not 'missed the point'.
Dorset County Council is our council, we elect it and we pay for it; therefore 'its' flag is ours and the coat of arms it carries is also ours, representing the armorial ancestry of the county in which we live.
This is much more relevant to us than the memory of the worthy St Wite.
In fact, until you published Mr White's letter I, together with (I suspect) nine tenths of the citizens of Dorset, had never heard of her.
Having now heard of her I feel that she has little relevance to our modern world.
To commemorate her on our county flag would be a meaningless travesty since few know of her or have anything but a passing interest in who she was or how she came to be a saint in Dorset.
John Neimer Cranford Avenue Weymouth
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