CONSERVATIVE county councillors were surprised to see both the Prime Minister and his Deputy touring the county's floods this week.

Perhaps they came to see self-help and good housekeeping under adversity by local people - they did, after all, cut the Counties Emergency Planning budget this year by £41,000.

We will be interested to see if they return those cuts under the guise of new money for flood relief.

JUNE LONGMUIR,

Leader of the Conservative Group.

Bromsgrove South.