I HAVE just read about plans by the council to spend more than £500,000 on projects to spread the internet learning process.

I am a regular internet user, and find it funny that the council can waste half a million pounds on something like this while the Bury Arts & Crafts Centre has to seek private funding, and a group providing much-needed furniture to desperate local families may be forced to close through lack of funds.

Anyone with a brain can use a computer, without any assistance. Operating systems are designed in that way; it isn't too technical. I taught a friend in five minutes how to set up internet access and full operate it, sign up for a email services and do word processing.

If the council want to spend half a million pounds on doing this, then they clearly have money to waste! It would be better spent on youth football. Maybe that would cure our teenage "street corners" problem.

STEPHEN

BOARDMAN (aged 16)