Deal with Bristol's problems (From Gazette Series)

Deal with Bristol's problems

SIR - Your anonymous Wickwar correspondent's disinclination to be associated (Gazette, January 30) with the world 'vigilante', described in my 1990s Concise Dictionary as "a member of a vigilance committee or similar body" may moderately be offered the culturally odious, though accurate, alternative, 'a Noah's'.

If the Wickwar 'vigilantes' really would like to be useful, they might be bussed to and dropped off in, guns at the ready, any of the more active areas of Bristol, where our investment in their training and equipment might enable enhanced occupational stimulation.

As they are council-trained and equipped, they would seem to be 'gratuitous employees'. I trust that proper insurances are in place for all of us.

Very few people actually wish to visit Wickwar, probably best known as the scene, ten years ago, of a UFO sighting. Considering that the object was said to be a white disc, halved horizontally by a red band, readers acquainted with the works of John Wyndham will draw their own conclusion.

What Wickwar does need is a bypass. A decent part of the money squandered in recent years by South Gloucestershire Council on disabling and painting roads would probably have built one by now, as well as having provided real jobs for real people.

John Barker, Wistaria Avenue, Chipping Sodbury