I HASTEN to inform Coun Kevin Small (EA June 2) that demands on my time do not permit the luxury of letters to your newspaper for the sake of it.

However, I will always make time for letters dealing with the colossal waste of taxpayers money by SBC.

More to the point would the contribution in non-domestic rates by the owner of the fire-ravaged Locarno be sufficient to cover fire brigade attempts to save this historic building; the security of which from all reports, left so much to be desired?

The cost of this disaster, which should never have occurred, represents yet another shocking waste of council taxpayers money.

FRANK AVENELL

Beckhampton Street