Still Bassetlaw Council persevere with their absurd objections to Vesuvius. In the enquiry they are clearly proposing another supermarket site along Kilton Road - despite having no companies any interest and ADSA having looked at this site four years ago. And you are paying a fortune for their expensive barristers to argue against your interests.

The council proposal would give us two new supermarkets within spitting distance of each other and every single road through Worksop would be a traffic jam. You couldn't make it up. No doubt they will continue the myth that pensioners will walk to the supermarket in large numbers. Nonsense.

Meanwhile the same Council has managed to annoy most of Retford by digging up the market square at huge expense- over a £1 million I hear.

The solutions remain simple. Move the market to Ryton Street. Abolish the £25 tax on parking outside your own home. Free town centre car parking - especially in the afternoon to encourage shoppers. No cars whatsoever in the pedestrian zone up to the clock tower. A new supermarket at Vesuvius and a smaller one at Mansfield Hosiery.

Meanwhile everything is going to be cut, apart from paid posts for councillors and council produced free propaganda. On October 20th the Coalition Government will announce its cuts- everything so far is just an appetizer. The one cut I would agree is to have just one council, with millions saved every year on senior managers pay. Instead the wise burgers at County Hall, backed by Cllr Quigley, have just appointed another senior manager on £110,000 a year. Presumably he will cut the grass and deliver meals on wheels in his spare time?

I noted AA Grundi knocking school exam results. Far be it for me to clash with such a literary luminary, but the old boy is making it up as he goes along. I have seen the questions that students have to answer and in most subjects - though admittedly not all - they are far harder than they were 30 years ago. I suggest anyone doubting this gets themselves down to the College and takes one of today's exams themselves.

I say well done to our students at school and college for their exam successes this year - lets praise success not knock it.

I would like to see the development of a co-ordinated youth volunteer force in Bassetlaw, under-pinning the work of the established youth organisations and helping them fundraise for additional activities. Throughout the area we have very many young people doing brilliant community work and we should recognise and encourage these successes.