Must be a priority I AGREE with Barbara Roberts' letter published in the Courier on February 6. Like Barbara, I walk as much as I can but I am grateful for the bus when it's wet or if I have heavy shopping. The town bus enables a lot of people to live independent lives, not everyone has family nearby to rely on. Politicians and the like, keep banging on how people are living longer and staying in their own homes, therefore public transport MUST be a priority to carry on doing so. S Tonkin Walnut Drive Crediton WOULD Ken Warren (Courier letters, February 13) and the ministers he quotes understand simple economics? He bemoans the conversion of farmland into energy producing solar farms and pleads with planners to reject such applications. My guess is that every farmer would prefer to be producing food, despite the long hours of hard, physical work but some have calculated that the best financial return on their land is to invest in solar energy. Blame who you like but top of the list must be the supermarkets which have, over many years, bought cheap imports and driven down farm-produced food prices and continue to do so because their customers want cheap food. Don't blame the farmer. Also, if tourism is such an important factor in the mid Devon economy, isn't it time that farmers were properly rewarded in some way for keeping the land in a condition which people wish to come and see? Colin Lever Rose Cottages Sandford