REGARDING your article on the mounting anger at the proposed plan to close Lancashire County Council homes for the elderly (LET, March 1), County Councillor Hazel Harding said: "When I am old, I do not want to be shunted into a care home. I want to be surrounded by my own possessions in my own home with my own front door and my own key."

Does she not realise that those thoughts were identical to the thoughts of the current residents of the homes for the elderly before age caught up with them?

Please object to the proposed plan now, by writing to your MP and the county council.

BETTY SPENCER, Sycamore Close, Rishton.