THE jolly account by anonymous reporters Selby Gets Switched On (Evening Press, November 27) bears no resemblance to the event endured by local residents.

We were subjected to an ugly cacophonous racket of jumbled instruments and strident voices, amplified so that it intruded through double glazing and thick curtains and could be heard over the early evening news.

The noise from the nearby fair (which is audible outside, but not in the house) was drowned out.

The whole performance had little, if anything, to do with Christmas. It was all about expensive advertising for the nearby new shopping development, at the expense of Selby taxpayers.

Few people attended, many who did were driven off by the noise.

Nearby, close to the west gates of Selby Abbey, we have our traditional Christmas Tree of Goodwill because of the initiative of local business and professional people.

Its Christian message is clear from the associated Nativity scene and the collecting box to provide Christmas gifts for the infirm. In previous years the Goodwill Tree has been the focus for unamplified Christmas carols.

It has not escaped me that the politicians reported as getting Selby 'in the mood for Christmas' with their profane performance are the same ones whom the Evening Press reported as wanting to desecrate Good Friday with noisy entertainment.

C M Ann Baker,

Church Avenue,

Selby.

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