Rebecca McDonald with the petition, beside other pupils and head Malcolm TrobeMORE than 120 pupils at Malmesbury School signed a petition demanding more say in how their town works, but two months later they have still received no response.

The pupils, along with some parents, teachers and their headmaster Malcolm Trobe, wrote to Malmesbury Town Council asking for more involvement in the town.

But they are angry that they have still received no reply from the council.

Rebecca McDonald, 15, said: "The council sent round a questionnaire asking for feedback on the way the town is run.

"As there are quite a lot of issues my friends and I feel quite strongly about, we wrote to councillors.

"I am very angry that we didn't even get a letter back acknowledging our petition, because we spent a lot of time on it."

Among the issues the young people were worried about were proposals to move the youth centre, the lack of buses and the fact that they don't have any say on local issues.

When he saw what they had done, headmaster Malcolm Trobe was impressed enough to send a letter of his own to the council.

He said: "I wrote to the council supporting what the pupils said about not having enough say.

"We have an excellent school council here, but obviously pupils can only make decisions about school matters.

"I offered the council the school council as a forum for young people to discuss town issues."

The town council sent questionnaires to residents as part of a £10,000 consultation into what people want from their council.

The closing date was last week.

Rebecca said: "There are a lot of things that I feel strongly about, firstly on the questionnaire they said they were considering moving the youth club.

"I think that's a bad idea, I go there a lot and I like the fact that it is central so that everybody can get there.

"I also think that the bus services are really bad. There are plenty of buses during the week, but obviously we are at school all week.

"There are no buses on Sunday at all and nothing after 6pm on a Saturday. For people who are too young to drive there is literally no way to leave town.

"I also think a skate park is a really good idea. It would give young people something to do, but I don't think it should be so far away from town as the plans say.

"That way there will be no-one to oversee it and I think it will be more likely that dodgy people will go there.

"There is no way for us to tell the council all this, which is why we organised the petition, so it is really disappointing that it hasn't replied."

Abby McDonald, Rebecca's mother said: "I responded to the questionnaire as well, and when I went in later I was told that there would be no individual responses until the consultation process has finished.

"That is why when I delivered the petition to the town hall I specifically told them that it was not a questionnaire.

"I am extremely irate that they didn't think it was worth acknowledging all the effort these kids went to.

"I have lived in Malmesbury since I was five and I love the place, but there are some things that really let it down, and I think the council has become one of those things."

Deputy town clerk Susan Webb said: "We are currently collating all the data from the questionnaires.

"We have had a good response so this has taken us quite some time.

"The subject of questionnaires has just been put on the agenda for the council meeting on July 13.

"After that as far as I know everyone who sent a questionnaire in will be acknowledged."