I read with dismay your report last week that Worcestershire County Council has created yet another highly paid "non-job" under the title head of community leadership.

The list of key responsibilities and outcomes/deliverables (whatever that means) is full of the usual local authority gobbledygook, presumably thought up by people at another level of "non-jobs".

How can the council possibly justify a payment of £70,000 per year, plus all the other on-costs, at a time when it is pleading poverty and saying it will have to cut services or increase Council Tax, yet again, by an extortionate amount.

You report that for more than 30 jobs the council currently pays annual salaries of between £50,000 and £130,000. Taking the mean of £90,000, plus employer's National Insurance, means that circa £3 million pounds per annum is being spent on salaries at this level. For what?

The county council roads are a disgrace and other services not much better. Meanwhile, pensioners and others on low incomes struggle to pay an extortionate amount of Council Tax to support the salaries and expenses of those all too willing to spend other people's money without any regard to the cost-effectiveness of such expenditure.

It would be interesting to do a survey of local businesses, many of whom are struggling to pay exorbitant business rates, to find out how many of them can afford, or would even wish to pay, any of their employees £70,000 per annum to carry out the job description for former Chief Supt. Simon Adams.

CHRISTOPHER R SANDISON Queenhill, Upton-upon-Severn.