I HAVE read with interest the letters with regards to the Farmers' Market.

I have some sympathy with some of the views, but the ethos of Farmers' Markets is to bring wholesome food direct to the market place to benefit everyone This would include those people who do not have the ability to travel to a rural area on a Sunday, and they are perhaps the more needy members of society. After all, is this not what Jamie Oliver has been preaching for the last couple of years?

But the underlying current within these letters on this subject and others is the authoritarian attitude of the council.

I would suggest that, as we live in a democracy, some worthy citizen should at the next council election stand as an Independent on a Single Issue. May I suggest either "parking" or "council incompetence", and we may see the start of true democracy in Bolton for the first time in 30 years.

S M Elster Carter Street Bolton