I WAS outraged to learn that two out of every three librarians in the borough are to face the chop and that library services are to cut back to the bone.

The writing was on the wall several years ago when libraries were forced to make space for One Stop Shops.

Yet there is plenty of cash for gallons of herbicide to be poured over anything that looks like natural green growth.

Don't take my word for it - just take a look at Poll Hill.

Plenty more for the use of heavy duty machinery in order to cut into the side of Thurstaston Common alongside Telegraph Road, plus cutting back growth from Thurstaston Cross.

To top it all, we hard-pressed taxpayers are expected to shell out for a new chief executive when many other local authorities manage quite nicely without one.

Name and address supplied