CONGRATULATIONS and best wishes to Mike Bawden for the investigation and exposure of the spendthrift attitude having been employed by Swindon Town Council during the last 25 years.

Small wonder that we citizens are now being called upon year after year for unaffordable council tax increases.

Carry on Mike and keep digging deeper, especially finding more and more reasons that we OAPs could be asked for no more than a two per cent increase in our council tax for 2004-5 due to your emergence and cancellation of many needless and unnecessary expenditure, that have been prevalent over the last 25 years.

Dig deeper and as leader of Swindon Council now, become the absolute Saviour of the OAPs and justify reductions and savings of a much lesser council tax. Thank you.

R D WALDRON

The Mall