HARDLY a week goes by without a reader's letter about dog dirt being published in your paper.

The Your Say section of the Globe's website currently carries a staggering seven letters about the substance.

If the dog dirt 'issue' was mired in controversy and these letters were expressing a range of opinions in a rational way then their publication could inform and educate your readership, guiding them through the dog dirt minefield.

Unfortunately, the dog dirt issue is not a controversial one, with an overwhelming majority of Wirral residents being in favour of unsoiled foot ways and public spaces.

The majority of the published letters are largely exercises in stating the blindingly obvious, interspersed with (as Derek Brown pointed out so sagely in the May 11 edition) logic-defying comparisons of dog dirt to human diseases and plastic adhesive tape, occasionally backed up by fictional statistics.

I am sure that many other readers have, like me, had their fill of dog dirt-related matters and I would urge you to consider a temporary moratorium on the topic, at least until someone has something new to bring to the table.

Name and address supplied.

Editor's note: Not sure about that