IT speaks volumes when the York Labour group resorts to using a Labour councillor's wife to write a letter in their praise (Doris Bell, Letters, March 14).

Some of us are still waiting for a 'proper' Labour council to be elected so we don't have to endure continual service cuts, and privatisations the Labour group appears to endorse.

P M Shannon,

Minster Avenue,

Huntington, York.

Updated: 12:10 Tuesday, March 19, 2002