With regard to the letter published in the Cornish Times (11.12.09) suggesting a cull of Radio Cornwall presenters, such a cull should be extended to BBC broadcasting in general here in the South West.

The Spotlight news programme is in dire need of a major makeover and new blood is overdue in the way the programme is presented.

You can set your watches by it each day – at 6.43pm the local news over, then we are informed every day that a full weather forecast will be given later in the programme. We then get any latest sports news, especially on Mondays or Fridays and in between a variety of sometimes interesting, sometimes boring, odd items of local news and at precisely 6.51pm we come to the weather forecast that finishes at 6.56pm.

We then get trailers of forthcoming programmes, unless, in the run-up to Christmas, a choir finishes off the programme.

The programme presenters, always well-dressed, are always seen in front of a background of the Plymouth waterfront, with the same pleasure boat passing by and the same tower blocks in the background. Haven't the producers any imagination at all? What a dull repetitive scene, when often there are so many lovely pictures sent in by viewers.

As to the quality of radio broadcasting on Radio Cornwall... the quicker we hear that the jingles are scrapped and some new presenters are used, from Cornwall, instead of other imported voices, the better.

Where are the likes of Mike Hoskin, Ted Gundry, Janet Eathorne and Chris Blount who pioneered the station in its earlier days?

They were all local, all presenting some interesting subjects and some decent music and there was no mention of their personal ages, families and tastes.

It seems that all today's presenters talk about is who won Strictly Come Dancing or the X Factor, or the goings-on in the soaps.

How many more staff do they use? At a recent count, it came to more than 32 to present 17 hours of daily broadcasting of which nine-and-a-half hours are of rock or pop music!

Excuse me while I turn it off and retune to Radio 4 or Classic FM.

DISILLUSIONED

Liskeard