ACCOMPANYING your article on the local government workers' strike was a picture of a police woman photographing strikers at the rally in St Helen's Square, York, (March 29).

The strike was not unlawful; there were no reports of crimes committed during the rally; the strikers were merely exercising their democratic rights - so why were the police photographing them?

B Emmerson,

Charles Street,

Selby.

Updated: 09:58 Monday, April 03, 2006