Having read Adam Trimingham's eulogistic piece on Norman Baker (Comment, April 24), I hope he can support his proposition that David Maclean's bill is unnecessary.

I suspect he has not asked Mr Maclean for his view and relied on Mr Baker's view as being the only tenable one. There just might be another story but I suppose that would have spoiled the article.

It interests me this story was run in the week of the local election.

Mr Baker has been active in seeking to block the Football stadium at Falmer. He has been effective about that all right.

It maybe that the endgame is close and it may be beyond the powers of the council, but I suspect the club will not be happy about the uncritical support for Norman Baker just in case the council still has further decisions to make.

And elsewhere The Argus reported on the A27. At a recent hustings I took part in for the local election, I raised the subject of the condition of the roads round here including the A27.

Whenever there is a fatality you can guarantee Mr Baker's response.

He says he is campaigning for improvements. He has been doing that for ten years.

The A27 is a major trunk road, not a little backwater. It needs a dual carriageway and at the hustings my Lib Dem opponents had nothing to say on that issue.

  • Tony Nicholson, Conservative councillor, Seaford East ward Lewes District Council