YET again F Avenell makes unfounded assertions (May 23).

"Uncontrolled immigration," "Rapid expansion of population with corresponding increase of criminal activity."

Is he referring to many companies invited from London by Murray John in return for housing their bombed-out families living in overcrowded accommodation?

There were also returning Forces members marrying and living with in-laws.

Or perhaps he is referring to all the "bloody foreigners" in the health and social services, from whom, if he begins to fail in a few years, he'll have to accept help.

Mr Avenell's once pleasant town would be a desert of closed shops and mass unemployment but for a far-sighted man who saw the dangers of a one industry town.

Good old Frank, never one to let facts get in his way.

A LUBIN Swindon