SIR - From time to time you publish letters in which the writer clearly hopes to tell a story that is not the whole truth.

In my view the letter to your paper (January 9) from Councillor Bob Peachey is one of these letters.

Yes, there is controversy about what additional activities can be undertaken in the Guildhall to make it more self-sustaining.

But laying the blame for the possibility of these additional uses on the transfer of staff from the Guildhall to the Orchard House complex is perverse.

I am sure that Bob remembers that the driving force behind the moves to Orchard House was to allow the council to surrender two expensive leases and to give all our staff modern office conditions where contact and efficiency improvements were easy.

The moves also gave the city an effective one-stop contact centre that has been of enormous benefit to the people of Worcester.

Finally, reducing the staff in the Guidhall allowed the council to meet its obligations under the Disability Discrimination Act and open up the splendour which is the Guildhall to all citizens.

To read Bob's letter you could be forgiven if you believed that there was a chance the Guildhall will become a purely commercial building.

Nothing could be further from the truth. The facts are that it will remain the centre of civic and democratic government in Worcester as it has always been and nothing will be done which prevents this.

COUNCILLOR BARRY MACKENZIE-WILLIAMS, Worcester.