With regard to your letter from Alan Lay I am amazed at his attitude to two very hard working and helpful councillors namely, Sam Hoy and Steve Tierney.

If Mr Lay manages to do a quarter as much for his constituents as these two have already done he will be doing very well.

Perhaps he needs to spend his time actually DOING what he is paid for instead of just writing letters and bad mouthing others!

As for his standing for Roman Bank ward, I am a resident of Roman Bank and would rather have a hard working and passionate councillor who is local and knows and cares about the villages she represents than someone who does not live here and seems to have done very little for us since his becoming county councillor.

Sam Clark has already been very pro active in the area for many years and will continue to be so. Unlike others!

BRENDA BARBER

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