MORE 'spin' from the Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety, according to your report (LET, August 25), in which the agency claims that the number of inches of 'positive coverage' recently given to it in the local press is evidence that its policies are increasingly approved by the public.

Let's forget the number of 'negative and positive stories' and think only of the opinions expressed by correspondents to Your Letters! I haven't collected any statistics, though I may do in the future, but it seems to me that the opinions expressed in this feature, together with the result of your Friday Jury, showing that 93 per cent of the voters abhor speed cameras, strongly reject the belief professedly held by the members of the Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety, that people consider them to be a boon and a blessing.

I often wonder what the citizens of East Lancashire have done to deserve this plague of officialdom run riot, when the rest of the country is mostly free from it.

I drove to Leeds the other day, using the Skipton route, and having passed through Salesbury, did not see another Gatso camera until my return. I had the feeling of having escaped from a concentration camp. A pity I had to come back.

T J LONGSTAFF, Gorse Road, Blackburn.