I CANNOT let the letter from "Bury Community Charge-Payer" (June 27) pass unchallenged. He has totally missed the point on two counts:

Mr Newton (Your Letters, June 20) was not "bleating" about getting fined for being two minutes late back to his car, but was quite rightly aggrieved that having paid the £30 fine in good time he was still being forced to pay the extra £30 for late payment.

The writer sarcastically asks: "What would be an acceptable delay in returning to one's vehicle; five, ten, 15 minutes, half-an-hour?" Of course it is acceptable to be fined if you are late at all, if the time clocks on the meters are actually correct!

People may think it is "nit-picking" to complain about one or two minutes but when £60 fines are issued against that measure, then it takes on a far greater significance.

Regarding the Pilkington Cycles issue, I feel sure that the problem of deliveries to the store arose because the rear service road has double lines on both sides compounded by the inflexible and over-zealous attitude of NCP wardens.

I am not biased against the authority as the writer offensively suggests, nor am I politically-motivated. I am, however, biased against injustice, inflexibility, stupidity, arrogance, greed, waste of public money, and incompetent and inconsiderate dealings with public issues.

It is noticeable that on this issue council leader John Byrne, always ready to attack any critic, has remained silent.

ANTHONY MANN,

Danesmoor Drive, Bury.