HOW much longer are the people of Wyre Forest and the rest of the district council going to allow the autocracy of Councillors Mike and Fran Oborski to continue?

I thought Health Concern was the largest single party but we hear little from them - and where are the rest of the Liberals?

Mike Oborski's latest ill-thought out scheme to spend millions of pounds of our money building a cinema is extremely worrying. The idea of a cinema has been pressed for on a number of occasions and sadly for us, the fact is, this area is too small for commercial operators to perceive us as viable.

At a time when councils - including ours - are pulling out of businesses like owning houses - Councillor Oborski is now considering this most bizarre of moves to tie up our money in an enterprise which could easily fail. If an operator pulled out what would happen to the disused cinema owned by us?

On the car parking issue - he now says he must believe the shopkeepers. Hurray! At last is he really taking notice of what everyone has been predicting? But to suggest park and ride - for goodness sake Kidderminster is a small town, not a large city. Most people live within a mile or two of the town centre anyway. We may as well leave our cars at home and walk in - except we won't because we need our cars to enable us to run our busy lives.

Mike and Fran say the Tesco car park will help solve the parking situation - but how? Surely the Tesco car park will be for their customers - not for people who work in the town or shop elsewhere in the town centre.

People shop by car and if they continue to marginalise the motorist we will be forced to shop out of town even more. More charity and discount shops will take over from the few remaining quality stores. The big chains will reduce their ranges even further. I note Boots has recently scrapped its baby-wear section - thereby forcing even those who are not disgruntled motorists to shop elsewhere.

SARAH COUSIN

St John's Avenue

Kidderminster