I HAVE recently been reading about Lancashire County Council's proposed new image and what really stood out was that the author certainly knows how to spell 'committee'.

We are fast becoming a committee-crazed society.

Some months ago I offered an excellent pair of hi-fi speakers to a charitable organisation and I emphasised that they were a gift and that I didn't want a penny for them.

The reply, would you believe it, was: "We will discuss it at our next committee meeting and if they are acceptable we will let you know."

What surprised me more than the statement was the pompous manner in which I was told.

The speakers found a new home on the council tip in Leyland.

I am now of the opinion that a committee is a cul-de-sac where ideas and good intentions are lured and then quickly strangled without so much as a decent burial.

Mr F.T. Morritt

Homestead

Bamber Bridge