SO the last of the Malvern £20 millions has been spent on more sports facilities for primarily the 11-18 year olds while the taxpaying 18-80 year olds still await a public sports centre that was top of the poll for what the money should be spent on!

Coun Tom Wells is the only councillor that I've noticed to have publicly acknowledged this demise.

In future such polls we should perhaps answer that we will consider other options only after we've got a public sports centre that we asked for.

If you don't want to commit to a club for occasional badminton or squash games, organised/refereed five-a-side soccer, supervised teenagers activity birthday parties etc, you will have to continue to travel out of Malvern to one of the three public sports centres built in Worcester in the 1980s.

In recent years MHDC has been characterised by distancing itself from, instead of serving, the Malvern community by means of offloading its areas of responsibility. With such savings, one would expect it to translate into lower Council Tax but, from a lower Council Tax than Malvern Wells and West Malvern six or seven years ago, we now not only have, like them, increased Council Tax but pay significantly more than them!

It would seem the time might have come for MHDC to be inspected in the way that schools are inspected.

E BRAY, Crown Lea Avenue, Malvern.