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As the writer of what she refers to as "inconsequential letters", it's obvious that I'm not exactly the flavour of the month with Joan King.

However, on the subject of the lost keys, she appears to have spectacularly missed my point.

The library may well be the repository of lost items found in Devizes, but the Melksham police still have to be contacted, which doesn't make sense as we have our own police station, built not that long ago at tax-payers' expense, but no longer accessible to the public.

I must confess that I was unaware that our library was now a dumping ground for lost property, but what happens, I wonder, if the lost items are larger than a bunch of keys, like, say, a bicycle?

For Joan King's information, I am indeed a member of the library and have always been an avid reader. And I'm certainly not given to theatrical gestures as the lady suggests. I didn't hurl myself into the path of that police car in London Road, but merely raised my hand to indicate that I wished to speak to the driver, as she slowly emerged from Police HQ. Hardly a theatrical gesture on my part.

Anyway, inconsequential or not, I shall continue to send in letters on subject that I feel may be of interest to most local readers in the hope that the editor may find some of them worthy of publication.

Robert Hayter, Chantry Court, Devizes

11:20am Friday 2nd May 2008

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