MAY I draw your attention to Citizen letters of January 1 (page 4), 'Look Out Blobby's Behind You!' and 'Heads Must Roll After This Latest Debacle' and your remarks at the end: "There's no chance, they've got skin like rhinos, and it appears no conscience or dignity."

We are still awaiting the outcome of why the town clerk left and Cllr Henig's mistakes? To date no-one knows. It's all hush hush or possibly brushed under the carpet.

Surely a full-scale public inquiry is justified before we are all saddled with a massive rate rise in March. Now is the time to act, it will be too late in March. It is all too obvious that the Council has to do what Cllr Henig says regardless of the cost. Look back at 1997 at the council costs, not only of the £1m plus Blobby fiasco but the town clerk pay off of £100,000 and the costs of the Dome at Morecambe. Salt Ayre will cost £1m-plus then there is the £2 million budget deficit. These are just a few of the problems to be faced by the ratepayers.

No doubt the £1m cash the council are going to get for the housing stock will offset at least some of the problem, but only when there is a full-scale investigation will all the debt be revealed.

There is too much secrecy and covering-up by the council who are elected by voters and are supposed to direct the officers in voters' name.

Fred Walker,

Leycester Drive,

Lancaster.

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