SHORTLY after the publication of my letter of March 31 regretting the reclusion of our independent councillors, I was informed that Councillor B (Cllr Warters, to the residents of Osbaldwick) is our local Luddite and is reached with difficulty by these new-fangled emails.

I should perhaps have resorted to pigeon post or even Royal Mail Ltd.

I am gratified to withdraw my suggestion that Cllr Warters neglects his correspondence. If Councillors C, D, E and F have as good explanations, I shall be more than happy to erase them from my naughty list too.

William Dixon Smith, Welland Rise, Acomb, York.