I READ in the Review (October 8, 2010), the article all about the Dean Heritage Centre and its new website set up to promote talent in the Forest. As a regular visitor to the centre I read this article with great interest but how disappointed I was to be when I visited the website to see what it was all about.

"A Showcase for Talent in the Forest of Dean" it proclaims and yet when you continue to view the headline details you read "A true petrol head........spending huge sums of money at Over Farm Market.........on his way home (to Gloucester)".

Now forgive me for being old fashioned perhaps, but that does not seem to promote the Forest of Dean in any way.

Yes indeed the person in question drives through the Forest in their BMW looking at the beauty from his car window but that is it. I really cannot understand how this 'showcases' the Forest.

This on its own might just be one of those things but, as I say, I am a regular visitor to the centre and buy a lot of gifts from their shop. Recently I went there specifically to purchase some presents for friends and on arrival I could not see what I wanted. So, as one does, I went to ask a member of staff.

They had there back to me and when I requested their attention they simply counted loudly so I could hear they were busy. Too busy to speak to me it seems as they then walked into the office.

Another person then came into the shop who worked there so I asked them, it seems that two of the three products were no longer stocked in the shop. Rather odd I thought as they were locally made items and therefore, 'Made in the Forest'. But sadly it seems the centre shop no longer stocks all such things.

I left empty-handed.

So, as you see, I cannot purchase some local products there any more and find a website promoting people who live and shop elsewhere. I find this rather odd having read the article. – C Giles, a disappointed visitor to the DHC, Cinderford.