I ALWAYS enjoy a good laugh and your item on councillors getting into a tizzy over the planned off-shore wind farm provided just that (‘Tourism chiefs in windfarm warning’, Echo January 27).

Perhaps Cllr Mike Greene should actually read the Scottish Tourist Board document on windfarms for himself before he runs off to see Bournemouth’s MPs and spreads further alarm.

The document is readily available on the internet.

Then perhaps that is asking a bit much as, at 300 pages, it is quite long.

So here is the headline conclusion – “This research has shown that even using a worst case scenario the impact of current applications would be very small and for three of the four cases study area, would hardly be noticed”.

And in that fourth area, Caithness, the report suggests that wind power could be made part of the tourist experience. I would make clear that this report deals with on-shore windfarms not the distant off-shore variety.

Also, a regular visitor to the Scottish highlands myself, the real menace to the highland tourist industry and the major factor in tourists not returning is the infamous highland midge.

Here’s hoping climate change doesn’t bring that little monster (or a relative) into Dorset.

DR MARTIN RODGER Bloxworth Road, Poole