Sir, Compost bins. 'Free,' and including delivery. I have just received my green Dalek, and it is currently trying to exterminate the two slightly smaller versions which already hide behind my potting shed. It is almost like receiving junk mail, unwanted and unasked. Did someone at County Hall imagine that, in a predominantly rural area, everyone needed or wanted a compost bin. A large number of us have appreciated the value of composting for many years, and had our own bins, heaps and so on long before the current craze started. So why is every household included in the delivery programme? It would have been far more appropriate to have carried out a survey of need to eliminate those citizens who have already made provision, or those who have no space to accommodate these monsters, or who have no garden on which to use the composted material. I, for one, can think of many more useful ways of using our council tax, and would have found a wheelie bin a more useful 'present.'

D. J. Gwynn, Sageston.