IT comes as no surprise to read that Bury Council and/or its partner NCP have been found to have acted dishonestly in the case of victimised parker Kevin McGuire (Bury Times, January 23).

We have known for a long time that they are inefficient and incompetent as has been highlighted so recently with the story of Mr Scotson and his family, having to live in a damp council house. Bury BNP have now had their fill of Bury Council and its "positive discrimination" and have decided to take up the case of Mr Scotson.

We are demanding that the Scotsons be given the same standards of accommodation that is the absolute minimum required of local authorities in the case of asylum-seekers and refugees. These standards, so we understand, are laid down in the Revised Tenancy Agreement (April 2001), compiled by the Secretary of State at the Home Office. Readers are unlikely to be aware of this document as it covered by the Official Secrets Act.

Before the bleeding hearts brigade start shouting, may I suggest they visit Mr Scotson, as I have done, and see for themselves the state this family has been living in.

They should go to his front door and recoil from the smell of damp and mildew. The living room is cramped, with the new-born baby's things, and they have to remain in there as it's the only reasonably dry room in the flat.

It is an absolute disgrace that people have to live like that in this day and age. Mr Scotson has been fighting for 12 YEARS to get his family moved and has been fobbed off. He has apparently been in contact with MP David Chaytor and Springs Tenants Association but, despite assurances, nothing much has been done.

Bury BNP have now written to Mr Chaytor and Mr Scotson's local councillors demanding action, and have contacted newspapers. If acceptable minimum living standards are set in legislation for the benefit of asylum- seekers, they should be set at the same standard for everyone else.

S. AUSTIN (Mrs),

Bury BNP Group.