I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait!

Is it really so boring driving along the Worcester Road towards Malvern every morning, gazing up at hills that have rested there for nigh on 600 million years? Hills that have persuaded artists of all kinds to create works that have enthralled millions of people worldwide.When the summit café burned down in 1989, moves to replace it by the Conservators were denied by the House of Lords – such a shame. How refreshing it would now be to see those plans resurrected and to see that alltoo familiar and comforting outline altered by a some swish, brick carbuncle of a cafe sitting a top the Worcestershire Beacon.

Imagine the enjoyment of sitting down to a burger; maybe a sticky bun; possibly even a beer after having slogged one’s way up those ancient footpaths.

But wait! There may not even be a need ‘to slog’, because the civic society is now arguing for a cable car to be built. Nothing would better alter that old profile, splitting the Beacon in two with a double strip of Sheffield’s finest.

We might even be on the verge of having the naming rights of those old hills sold off to ‘big business’ to pay for it all. How about ‘the McDonald’s Malvern Hills’, or possibly ‘the KFC’ – mmmm, finger-licking good.

STUART STOCKLEY

Malvern