I did expect to see an article on car park charges but no doubt I've missed that, having been away.

Your readers are obviously not inclusive of the top guys at the local, big supermarkets. The petrol prices and lack of stations was predicted more than 10 years ago by Tim Rix, of the Rix group.

The local, big name supermarkets, quite frankly, have the local population by the scrotum.

Please be under no misapprehension, these organisations are not here to help us save money, they are here to make big profits – the bigger, the better.

There used to be 13 fuel stops in Bridlington – somebody might remember more – but this was 25 years ago and I'm sure that if the only independant station, the Esso one, was not in a prominent place it would have also gone by now.

God help us in the next fuel shortage, you will not be able to get near a fuel stop, never mind buy the stuff.

On another subject, the car parking on Weston-super-Mare seafront is 80p an hour – or £2.40 for four hours – but it is £1.30 here for every hour.

No wonder the shoppers go to Leeds, Hull and Scarborough.

If they have a day in York they can pick up a tankful of cheaper fuel on the way back.

I have two permits for my business use in town, they have gone up 44% in two years.

The message is simple: the local fuel costs, car park prices and traffic mismanagement schemes will force us off the roads.

When that happens the cost of sevices will go up and local businesses will go out of business or move to another town.

If those businesses cannot survive, then who is going to pay the taxes and rates?

I once wrote to East Riding of Yorkshire Council about an issue and was told literally that if i didn't like it I could show my feelings at the ballot box. Don't worry folks, I'll be there.

How can the council continue to provide declining quality services and roads (anybody driven along St Aidan Road and to Driffield lately?) – not to mention the police and fire services – yet continue to increase our taxes and rates?

I thought the Sheriff of Nottingham was long gone!

Tony Saltonstall, via e-mail,
Eastfield Road,
Bridlington.

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