February 26, 2001 16:35: RESIDENTS being driven dotty by poor TV reception caused by a faulty aerial claim the council keeps fobbing them off.

People at the mobile home park in Rayners Avenue, High Wycombe, say they have complained several times only to be told that nothing can be done.

One mobile home resident, Leonard Speck, said people can hardly get a picture on their TV sets.

He said: "We haven't had a proper TV picture for about a month and for the last two weeks we cannot even recognise anything on screen.

"About nine people have phoned up the council but they keep fobbing us off and all we can see on our screens is a lot of white dots."

Mr Speck said that many of the elderly residents in the mobile homes like to enjoy the TV during the day and now they have nothing.

He added: "The only thing they say to us at the moment is that the complaint has to go to higher people. We just want it fixed."

A council said the communal TV aerial that serves the mobile home park at Rayners Avenue has been failing over a matter of months and they aim to update the system.

A spokesman said: "While there is no reference in the tenants' agreements to the provision of an aerial, and the residents are not charged for this service, the council is urgently looking into the costs of providing a digital system to replace the current outdated analogue system.

"We are hopeful that a solution will be found shortly."