A thankless job; Mailbag.

RARELY can so much venom have been directed at a work of town regeneration as has been poured on the modernisation of St George's Square.

Few of the hard-ups and fed-ups, and the host of correspondents who write as if they were the only folk who paid their taxes, would dream of offering their services for the thankless task of being local councillors - our councillors whose services are rarely appreciated and usually undervalued. The carping criticism of petty-minded people, many of whom I suggest have rarely visited the square, peddle the myth of a pseudo-Victorian magnificence which is purely imaginative.

When the trees are in full leaf and a few spectacular events have been held there I am confident that we shall all be glad to acknowledge the benefits of a modern square worthy of the fine buildings which enclose it.

PHILIP CHARLESWORTH Waterloo