TROWBRIDGE town councillor Angela Milroy makes a compelling case for regarding with extreme suspicion and some serious reservations, the county council decision (by only four votes to three apparently) to move the county record office from Trowbridge to Devizes.

So much of the debate and argument surrounding this saga appears not to be in the public domain. Why not?

If councillor Milroy's assertions are correct, that there have been serious omissions and systematic and deliberate bias in the case for retaining the record office in Trowbridge, and inflation of the claims of one specific location, this county council decision must surely be challenged and, if possible, set aside.

Pauline Dyer, head of libraries, is reported by you as saying the evidence considered by the county council had been compiled within Heritage Lottery Fund guidelines and the HLF officers had not raised any issue with their methodology.

This is a red herring any report can be compiled according to pre-determined guidelines and approved methodology, and yet still be deficient in fact, and slanted or biased. We believe the citizens of Trowbridge have not been presented with any cogent argument, financial or otherwise, for the removal of the county record office.

Is Trowbridge to remain the county town, or is this a step towards loss of status?

MR & MRS WOODFORD,

Quilling Close,

Trowbridge