AS a regular contributor to "Your Letters", and acknowledging the fact that it is always over-subscribed, why has the Bury Times permitted the slanging match between ex-councillor Albert Little and deputy council leader John Byrne to drag on over the past weeks?

I have always attempted to make my contributions constructive and topical, but these two gentlemen are debating things which happened more than a decade ago.

As a ratepayer I would prefer that Councillor Byrne, who receives £14,784 plus out-of-pocket expenses per annum, concentrated his efforts on next year's council budget rather than spending his, and council employees', time on historical matters that are now best forgotten.

A. WITHINGTON,

Wellington Road,

Bury.

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