IS Hyndburn Council coming apart at the seams? First we had your report about the survey revealing low morale among council employees (LET, August 23), which, for some reason, has not been put before committee and we should all be told why.

Then came the report (LET, August 25) about a council officer jailed for nine months for theft because 'it was easy.'

This is quite incredible to me because it happened over a period of time without any supervision being in place because the council thought the system was foolproof.

It further transpired that there had not been an audit for several years.

Next, the Douglas Deakin 'absent councillor' affair seems to get more tangled by the minute as we hear that a default judgment against him, for more than £800, has been granted by Accrington County Court. My advice must be for him to consider his position.

And what is happening to the Accrington centre development? The only major electrical retailer we had has now shut, but we are, I understand, to have two more public houses. For heaven's sake, are there not enough already?

I shudder to think what former aldermen and councillors, sadly no longer with us, such as Bert Taylor, Jack Duckworth, Jim Pollard, the Mortimers, Bill Ridehalgh and Wally Haines (along with Alice), and others, would say, if they had to see what a shambles we now have.

GRANVILLE BROADHURST, Sharples Street, Accrington.