Over the past few years I have experienced continual difficulty in getting our close cleaned.

Both here, and in adjoining roads, there has been little proper cleaning carried out.

After 13 months of neglect, and complaints to all councils, signs were eventually put up to the effect that cleaning would be carried out during September 2008.

This was done, but since then there has been no further cleaning and it is now in a very bad state.

On another subject applicable to us, after three years of negotiation, the yellow lines promised for the road here have not been laid down. Should it be necessary for fire or ambulance services to be called out, they would have difficulty in gaining access to our homes, due to public parking, which takes place daily!

I feel that I must once again ask for a refund of council tax, due to this failure to provide the services for which we have paid over the last two years. It is surely fraudulent to charge for the latter, when they have not been provided.

ERIC UPSON, Lewens Close, Wimborne+Minster">Wimborne Minster, Dorset