I WOULD like to add my request for a polling card in all local elections to that of Betty Collings (Malvern Gazette, March 10).

Newspapers are not government publications and should not be expected to carry the same weight. In the recent election for a town councillor it was surely the responsibility of the council (town or district, both seem to admit it in your article), not of the Malvern Gazette, to let the voters know about it.

If there is a statutory notice-board in Pickersleigh I do not know of it and all the wards are so spread out few voters could be counted on to walk past any particular board.

If we are to have a councillor elected with a mere 97 votes cast, we in Pickersleigh must hope we have a councillor, who, though he does not live in the ward, will make it a priority to fight for Pickersleigh's share of attention and not merely "to learn about local government".

Good as it is to see a smiling street warden in Great Malvern's main street, I would very much like to see her slapping fines on the litter droppers and bike riders over Pickersleigh's footpaths and green spaces. Even a litter bin at the corner of Stanley Road and Delamere Road, where two paths diverge, would be something, though it has so far been denied us.

MERIEL TOMKINSON, Craeg Lea, Pickersleigh, Malvern.