IN her letter "Cuts due to the Tories" (January 3), Anne Johns asks whether Mr Hotter has read the newspaper in the last five years, with regard to his previous letter when he had asked: "Why is it that Derby City Council is always cost-cutting when other councils seem to manage their cash flow?".
The timing of Anne Johns' letter was brilliant, coming only days after we read in this paper that our hard-up, bellyaching, whingeing council has just spent £6,000 on three bicycle pumps in the city "£6,000 for three bike pumps leaves some feeling let down" (December 31).
She then goes on to say "The council has held extensive consultations with its electorate about where priorities should lie". Priorities ? I don't think that anyone on the council knows the meaning of the word.
Barely a week earlier we had a few inches of snow causing the usual chaos.
Perhaps in future if it has a spare £6000 the council should put it to one side and use it where it would be more appreciated.
On the same page of the same edition, we had Saros Kavina bestowing on us a few kindly words his father had said to him about showing "kindness and compassion towards our fellow human beings".
I hope that would include members of UKIP and their supporters or other people that Mr Kavina often criticises on this page.
S Radford
Rowditch Avenue
Derby
