The front-page headline "Waste burner U-turn" (Argus, April 24) conveys the impression that senior councillors in Brighton and Hove City and East Sussex councils have come out against waste incineration.

But a close reading of the story makes it clear this is not necessarily the case.

David Rogers has claimed to be opposed to incineration for several months now, even picketing the council of which he is leader.

Yet until only a short time before plans for an incinerator were announced, he sat on the very committee that was developing the plan for an incinerator in Newhaven.

Rather than fighting the plans, he resigned from the committee, citing a "conflict of interest".

Since then, his Lib Dem group has toyed with both Beddingham and Waterhall as alternative sites.

In this light, discussion of Beeding as another alternative simply looks like the last in a long series of attempts to push the problem somewhere else.

Councillor Bodfish's apparent conversion to the anti-incineration cause is more recent but he, too, needs to know that nowhere in Sussex - East or West - would be an acceptable site.

Whether Ken wins or not, let's hope the new leader of Brighton and Hove will rule out incineration altogether.

-Dr Richard Black, Labour county council candidate for Newhaven