I WAS recently ensconced in the Great Malvern Hotel musing on the cable car debate and on Malvern For All's spokesman Roger Sutton's shameless tokenism in using disability as a reason to support his crackpot scheme.

The day before I had seen a tweet of a disabled rambler, in his wheelchair, on top of Worcester Beacon.

I was struck by the realisation that accessing the said establishment in a wheelchair was a darned sight more challenging than getting to the top of Worcester Beacon.

The front entrance has 10 steep steps and then an outward-facing door that would send you tumbling down into the road.

The side door is somewhat better, just two steep steps and a further two internal steps to get to the bar. Never mind, around the back, by the wheelie bin is an unlit door with just one step (still two more to negotiate inside though), but that was locked.

Ironically, I was drinking a pint of the Friday Brewery Co's Pinnacle bitter at the time.

Who owns the Great Malvern Hotel? Er, that would be Roger Sutton.

Tim Dixon

Upper Colwall