YOUR correspondent Ms S Mathews finds some decisions of North Wilts District Council 'hard to believe' with breathtaking naivety, or could it be for party political motives?

She trots out Tory porkies about pigs. In fact they were classified as dangerous wild animals (cross-bred boars) and had to be stored securely when the council was forced to recover them two years ago. The alleged lack of storage space for old archives is another story that is on the shelf. It would have been negligent for NWDC to build expensive office storage space for files which will meet their destruction date within a few years.

Now we hear equally fallacious allegations about car parking space for office staff. It has not been overlooked. New town centre buildings are subject to planning guidance which restricts the number of spaces that can be provided. NWDC is taking a sensitive and realistic approach by scaling down the number of spaces for office staff over the next three years.

DAVID PACKHAM

Leader, North Wiltshire District Council,

Meadow Springs

Lydiard Millicent

Swindon

Council taxpayers have much to thank the council for, council tax increases have consistently been lower that/than???? WCC for years, cash reserves have been maintained at high levels. Sad little political point scoring is always irritating and does nothing for the credibility of those who persist in doing it.