"Swimmers get council help" proclaims a headline from last week's Ledbury Reporter.

However, on further reading the article, I discover that it refers to a letter to Halo Leisure Trust written by Ledbury Town Council in support of the continued extensive use of Ledbury swimming pool by the swimming club.

This elite band of 110 children currently monopolises the use of the swimming pool for eleven-and-a-half hours a week. That's 45 per cent of the pool's evening opening hours!

Has the council consulted any of the other 9,000 residents of Ledbury on whether we're happy to see the swimming club have exclusive use of the pool for so many hours a week? For the rest of us, once lessons and special sessions are accommodated, there is very limited evening access to the pool; a total of eight hours availability.

It may be that, once the review is completed, Halo will decide that the current generous allocation of peak time hours to the swimming club is appropriate.

I hope the Leisure Trust will be less blinkered and discriminatory in its review of operating policy for the pool than our elected representatives would wish it to be.

Isobel Gibson, Jubilee Close, Ledbury.