MAY I congratulate you for bringing to light and publishing photographs of Labour's county councillors who voted for the closure of care homes (LET, September 27).

What a despicable lot they are -- people without a thought for the aged and getting financial benefit, allowances etc. for closing the residential homes.

It was as if Social Services executive County Coun Chris Cheetham was a shepherd, followed by a lot of spineless sheep; no disrespect to the sheep.

Coun Cheetham states that people are happier about promises he has made. Well, I received a letter from him and no doubt many more got the same and I promise him it did not make me any happier.

How on earth can the likes of Coun Cheetham and his flock of councillors sleep at night? But then I think: "Fear not, for it could happen to them and their loved ones, just as it has to many of us."

N IRELAND (Mr), Peel Park Close, Clitheroe.