AT Wick annual parish meeting in April, a resolution was passed desiring that all debate on the Cox's new house in Wick should cease.

Two weeks ago Henrietta McMillan-Scott sought to assure Drs Cox that their campaign was nothing personal. This can be of little comfort when the objectors are trying to knock your house down. This week Edward McMillan-Scott seems to justify the vandalism of writing libellous graffiti on the wall of the Cox's home. How regrettable as the spokesman of the official objectors that he could not bring himself to condemn it.

But after so much misrepresentation, half-truths and unsubstantiated allegations, it is hardly surprising that things have spun out of control.

There are many, like myself, in the village that would like to apologise to the Cox's that such a thing should happen in Wick.

MALCOLM MEIKLE, Owletts Lane, Wick.