Changes were inevitable but are disappointing

I suppose that it was inevitable that the once excellent Oban Times would go compact.

When any survey of readers was undertaken on this, I do not know, and I have read it every week for more years than I can remember. The way the new compact has been endorsed on numerous pages is obviously for those

of us who do not agree with the new format to be silent so as not to be identified as fuddie-duddies.

I had not realised there were so many shortarmed readers who have been struggling for decades to control their broadsheet paper with a mind of its own.

Could they not fold the paper in half to facilitate easier reading?

We should have realised things were changing when the Lochaber News was incorporated into the Oban Times.

There are no alternatives to The Oban Times, so please do not ruin the paper that was so good in a radical way that the then Duke of Argyll was forced to cancelled his subscription! Lorna Byrne, Locheilside, Fort William.