OUR country’s financial problems at both national and local levels could be solved by: 1. Pulling out of Europe, thereby saving our net contribution of £40 million per day.

2. Dorset County Council scrapping its contract with SSE to improve street lighting.

If my own road Abingdon Drive, Highcliffe is typical of the roads being improved, the expenditure cannot be justified.

CLAUDE PINNEY, Abingdon Drive, Highcliffe