SIR — I was interested to read the letter from ex-district councillor Eddie May in last Friday's Free Press but didn't find his comments particularly enlightening or original. I have to say that issues such as the ongoing saga of the paving slabs at Dunster are best resolved by those directly involved and may become clouded if too may people "put their oar in". Surely the matter is one for the people of Dunster and Somerset County Council. If Mr May is concerned with saving public money, your readers should be aware that he was one of the leading district councillors and chairman of the district council when some of the decisions made by the authority were not in the interest of the local taxpayer, as considerable sums of money were squandered. Among them was the demolition of the old front offices of the district council. This was one of a matching pair of buildings, the other being the present Risdon solicitors' offices, and one of the (excuse the hackneyed phrase) iconic architectural features of Williton. And the space that the building occupied is now about half a dozen parking spaces. Then £3 million was spent on new offices for the district council in a post-modernist architectural style hardly in keeping with a rural village in west Somerset. Many more parking spaces were lost by the footprint of this new building. The offices were until recently partly unused and now one floor is occupied by Somerset County Councils' Social services. I think Mr May should quietly retire and reflect on some of the decisions made by the district council over the last decade and a half. David Thomas, Address supplied.