So we are to all have a token in the next issue of the council’s Wiltshire Magazine, that will give us all one hour’s free parking. Well, it’s a start, but with respect this will do nothing to improve trade in the district.

Wiltshire Council’s Cabinet must understand that we need to attract trade to the town 52 weeks a year and not just one month of the year.

And it’s not hard to understand that the only way to do that is by doing a U-turn and reduce the cost of parking in Melksham and the rest of Wiltshire.

Terry Chivers, Eden Grove, Whitley, Melksham.