THE Record Office issue showed just how good the County Council was at getting Heritage Lottery grants.

If the county can't even get such grants for themselves then it is questionable just how much their advice and expertise is worth.

Regrettably people in Devizes know only too well what happens to former public buildings when there is a lack of political will to bring them back into public use.

The Devizes Assizes Courts have been boarded up for years and effectively left to rot and decay. I doubt if many in Trowbridge want that to happen to the Town Hall.

It would be very sad to see such a prominent building, so closely identified with the town, boarded up and increasingly derelict.

D.M Colcomb, Devizes