I HAVE no option but to respond again to Councillor Mike Connolly's letter (March 3). He accuses me of inaccuracies, but then fails to highlight any.

Furthermore, he totally ignores the main points of my previous letter, that is the abysmal way the innocent supervisor was condemned to months of stress awaiting the outcome of a trial when it took the jury only a few minutes to find her not guilty. Also the stress and trauma experienced by the innocent motorist involved, Kevin Maguire, and the unnacceptable wait for a just conclusion to this whole matter.

Obviously the "office politics" of NCP need very close examination. This company is far from the satisfactory operation that Coun Connolly describes and defends.

Through all of this he and others continue to ignore my repeated claims regarding the slow setting of meter clocks, which I believe has been going on for two-and-a-half years.

Coun Connolly needs to "get real". There is an awful lot of money to be made for NCP and the council from privatised commercial parking without ripping off residents and visitors to our town.

I am beginning to wonder just who are the real culprits: NCP the operators, or Bury Council who organise the whole thing and condone, by their lack of action, its many obvious failings.

PARKERS' WATCHDOG