LIKE many council taxpayers, I am incensed council chiefs decided to give away tickets for the AIR Festival concerts.

It is, after all, our money which should have been spent on repairing the potholes in the vicinity of Arrow Valley.

Obviously, there cannot be one member of the council with any sense whatsoever. Why could not the tickets have been sold at say £10 per adult, £5 per child, thus at least making some money out of the events?

The £500,000 spent on the project was public money and the knowledge that this sum has just been written off fills me with horror. I suppose it will be offset with a substantial rise in council tax next year.

Rebecca Blake, you have lost the plot! Remarks in the papers that the concerts would benefit council taxpayers needs an explanation.

Also, as festival organiser, she said she was delighted the event was a sell-out. How can you have a sell-out when nothing has been sold?

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