WAKE OF THE TSUNAMI: ORGANISERS of the tsunami relief effort at Wroughton insist that there is no crisis in getting supplies to the disaster zone.
The reassurance comes after James Gray, MP for North Wiltshire, wrote to the Prime Minister saying that appeal goods were rotting in hangars at Wroughton.
The Tory MP wanted to know why Hercules planes, which Tony Blair had said were involved in distributing aid, were sitting on the runway at RAF Lyneham when goods needed to be taken out to the affected countries.
Mr Gray said: "I think it is terribly disappointing and really quite wrong that materials are there on pallets and they can't get them moved.
"The people of Wiltshire who have worked so hard at Wroughton will be very angry with the government for not acting."
But Matt Monet, vice-chairman of the Wiltshire Mercy Appeal at Wroughton, said some of the reports about the situation were inaccurate.
"There is no rotting food," he said.
"We are in full flow."
Yesterday they heard that the Islamic Relief Charity would take nearly all their supplies around 500 pallet loads to the disaster areas.
They still particularly needed donations of tents, blankets, medical supplies and baby goods, he added.
Mr Gray said a journalist, not from the Adver, had told him the appeal was having problems getting the supplies out.
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