COLIN Henson misses the point about the telephone box in St Saviourgate (April 10), because the facility is obviously well used and thereby, not unreasonably, BT makes a profit.

Obviously a large number of users will be inconvenienced if the telephone were removed as Insp Harding recommends. It is a typical reaction from an organisation that seems to have completely lost its way.

A token presence would discourage a minority increasingly jeopardising our normal way of life.

Their constant misuse of other public facilities (parks, toilets etc) is now a daily occurrence. Perhaps the police would like all those closed too.

John Wood,

Middlecroft Grove,

Strensall, York.

Updated: 11:38 Friday, April 18, 2003