PARISH COUNCIL: Councillors are dissatisfied about late postal deliveries.

The village used to get its letters between 8am and 9am and, when the deliveries got later, councillors complained to the Royal Mail which which said the daily post would have to be 11.30am in future. Members heard at their meeting that the post was now often as late as 1pm to 2pm.

"I think we ought to have another screech about this," said the chairman Lady Herbert.

"Why should we go into the third millennium with things worse than they were before? For those people running a business it must be very difficult."

The council is to write to the Royal Mail.

Cutsdean, the odd man out, has been dropped from the proposed new Fosseridge voting ward and will now join its nearer neighbours in the Guitings ward. Broadwell and Donnington will continue to join Fosseridge in order to boost the ward's number of voters.

Councillors agreed to write a letter of thanks to Sir Peter Herbert, who had not only repaired the old noticeboard in the bus shelter for free but also voluntarily made a new one for Fenhill Close, the previous notice-board having been demolished by a reversing lorry.