A REPORT in the Guardian (December 6) quotes a council spokesman as responding to your inquiries in the following way: "hjhj hjhjhj hjhjhj hjhjhj."

Now it may be that gremlins are at large in your offices, or were you perhaps seeking to imply that sometimes the council makes no sense, speaks a foreign language, or even lives on a different planet?

I think we should be told.

JOHN BEANSE,

Mansfield Hill,

Chingford.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Sorry about the "hjhj....etc". The gremlins apologise.