AFTER reading your article on the proposed waste recycling by burning by a private firm, it left me wondering how much further this Labour government will go in its endeavour to emulate Conservative policies.

A similar system is, I think, employed in Sweden, where household waste is burned and the resulting energy is converted into heat that is transferred to local housing -- free, ensuring lovely central heating in houses that have to stand far colder winters than ours.

Come on, New Labour, show us something that is nationalised besides the National Bank.

FRANCIS CROSS, Royds Street, Accrington.