THANK you for printing that letter from Neil Bristow of Thurney Drive.

He wrote my sentiment and probably a lot more people's as well. This town has gone to the dogs over the last 25 years or more, ever since the GWR factory closed down.

Quite a lot of stupid things have happened over the last few years, I think the main one is letting that new hospital be built out in the middle of nowhere (I wonder for whose benefit that was?

It certainly wasn't for the elderly and carless people of the town.

There doesn't appear to be an iota of thought given to them! They may just as well have built it at Barbury Castle. As he says, if they spent as much time working out and implementing plans to better the ratepayers of the town as they do on making stupid demands such as telling people to move their cars from their own property, we would be a better town, also having to wait six months for a bus shelter to be renewed.

We elected those councillors to make our lives easier, but it seems to have the opposite effect.

It will be interesting to see where all this extra council tax disappears to over the next 12 months.

E HAZELL

Ferndale Road

Swindon