According to the council, a person made a complaint "so we had to act".

How convenient to use that excuse, how many times has that old chestnut been trotted out by dictatorial council wishing to put a stranglehold on people's lives and liberties.
Now if you flip the coin you find a different story – even if a mass of people make a complaint about the council's shoddy services on some areas, what is the result?

No need to answer that one.

If there really was a complaint, that person and the city council should hang their heads in shame and be sent to the Siberian salt mines.

The council should remember that Tony Smart has raised more than £2million for good causes and helped many people in many ways, just stop and think about the effort and time needed to accumulate that kind of finance and support, that man is a true Olympian.

He even raised finance in an indirect way for our local printer, newspapers, food bar, fuel duty and stallholders.

Local people and tourists look forward to their car boot sales as places for bargains and chit chat as well as the stallholders selling off unwanted items that otherwise would have to go to the tip.

So at one stroke the council has decided to curtail the enjoyment and freedom of thousands of people, not to mention discriminate against the disadvantaged.

When the one great maker comes to write against your name he writes not that you won or lost, but how you played the game (good on you Tony).

Brian Johnson
Rochester Avenue
Westgate
Morecambe