UNLIKE most of your correspondents, I don't mind paying my taxes, either Income Tax or Council Tax.

I also realise that, through previous policies of low tax, low spend, both taxes are rising fast. The infrastructure of our country and our county is degrading fast. It is a case of "pennywise pound foolish". We now have to pay the pounds.

What I do strongly object to is where waste of my taxes takes place. The roads in our village, like most villages in the county, are littered with bone-crunching potholes. The county council, after much prodding, sent a lorry and three men to patch up some of these potholes the other day.

I will emphasise the word "some". There are potholes that have been repaired which have other potholes adjacent to them that have been ignored. In one case, a pothole repair ceases halfway across a pothole.

The greatest cost in such an operation must be the cost of despatching, men, vehicles plant and equipment to the site. The material they throw in, asphalt, is very cheap. Why in heaven's name do they not attend to all the potholes while they are there? They will only have to come back again to fill in the unfilled potholes when they inevitably get bigger.

What sort of bureaucratic brain sorts out what holes the operatives fill in? I understand that the Government has handed out extra cash for road repairs. Try telling that to the man who repairs car suspensions round here.

T A JAMES,

Drakes Broughton.