M A TIMMS lambasts the Iver residents who called a meeting to demand a parish poll on the Euro (Letter, September 22 - 'Parish poll abuses freedoms').

M A TIMMS lambasts the Iver residents who called a meeting to demand a parish poll on the Euro (Letter, September 22 - 'Parish poll abuses freedoms').

On the contrary, they deserve our warmest applause for their public-spirited action.

I only regret that apparently this remedy is not available within a unitary authority, such as Maidenhead and Windsor.

Mr Timms takes pains to point out that such polls are being sought elsewhere in the country. How scandalous! Is it not a shocking revelation, that all over the country there are people who object to their council tax being wasted on premature, and probably redundant, preparations for adopting the Euro? Even worse, some of them are prepared to sacrifice their own time and money, and do more than just complain!

Perhaps Mr Timms does not consider it to be a matter of local public concern that at Iver the unjustified expenditure by the district council, alone, could amount to £100 per adult. Easy come, easy go.

Of course this must be challenged, and by any legal means that are available.

Far from being an abuse, the parish poll route is an unusual, but very proper use of freedom. But perhaps at bottom it is the use of freedom, to counter the abuse of power, that some people find disconcerting.

Dr D R Cooper

Belmont Park Avenue

Maidenhead