Vandals ruin it

Marj Chilton wrote how nice it was to finally have a bus through the Edgebury Estate. What a shame some youngsters choose to throw bricks through the bus windows making it impossible for the bus to complete its journey and putting the driver and passengers' lives at risk. There was an example of this recently when the driver of a bus I was on said he was unable to go through the estate for this reason and would go down Green Lane. He said it was the second bus in a week to be vandalised.

Toni Hartwell

Green Lane Resident

Chislehurst

Housing truth

You published a letter (name and address withheld) "Housing benefit backlog no joke". Readers should look at the website www.bfi.gov.uk to see for themselves the truth about housing benefit payments in Bromley. The report published by the housing benefit fraud inspectorate discloses the true position a wasteful service penalising the very people it is supposed to help. The council should own up to this scandal and sack the contractors they pay our money to. Even better they should resign.

Clive Oliver

Homesdale Road

Bromley

Taxes wasted

I refer to a new scheme Bromley Council wants to put into place in March 2002. I have a large house and pay £138.30 a month in tax and I am expected to put my rubbish out the front of the house as it cannot be collected from the back. The cats and foxes will have a ball and who will clear the mess? As neither roads nor pavements are kept clean, I cannot imagine the council doing it. It is time the council gave householders something in return for their money!

A Green

Langley Road

Elmers End

Tories' mess

The police are expected to sort out the mess created by the Tories by their sale of police accommodation within Greater London to non-police users, not only in Bromley but in central London in districts like Marylebone and Victoria. Now the police and the public are having to suffer as a result of the short-sighted Tory policy a decade or so ago. Thatcher and the Tories have a lot to answer for.

G W Williams

Ullswater Close

Bromley

November 15, 2001 12:01