AS A member of the public, I have attended three of the last four Idmiston Parish Council meetings.

Each time I have found it necessary to question the rank bad manners, disgraceful lack of respect shown to the chairman and the all-round appalling behaviour shown by certain councillors.

To read in your piece: ‘Death threats’ against chairman’, (May 26), that councillors have not witnessed anybody being rude, is preposterous, laughable and worse.

Parishioners had fully supported then chairman, Gail Warnes, and enthusiastically applauded anyone brave enough to speak out against the ‘bully boy’ tactics used against her.

New chairman James Humphries, alongside Bourne and Woodford Valley county councillor, Mike Hewitt, need to root out the characters at the heart of this problem.

Until then, any potential volunteer to join the parish council is not likely to come forward. Why would they?

KEITH ELMER Salisbury