CHILDREN of all ages love a circus, if you take a short walk down Holton Road, Barry, you eventually come to a big red building, well this building houses a circus full of clowns namely the Vale Of Glamorgan Council.

Well done Vale Council you have outdone yourselves again.

Slapping parking charges on three of our car parks is another nail in the coffin of Barry Town Centre and councillors who state it will not mean any less footfall to the town is obviously on very strong medication.

Cllr Gwyn John from Llantwit Major, I may add says that it is not a money making exercise, does this man think that all the people in Barry are dull, if it wasn't a money making exercise why didn't you just put signs up in the car parks stating two hours parking no return for two hours simple.

Cllr John states that cars are being parked all day in the car parks so what I expect is a lot of these cars are owned by the workers in Holton Road.

I also note that the next target will be the multi-storey car park, so can we expect phase three to be the council offices car park, but that would hurt you councillors wouldn't it, but then again you can always claim it back on expense claims.

Also why on earth did the Council use Capita to do all the donkey work at a cost to us the taxpayer of some £30,000, why on earth didn't the council do it, what on earth are we paying them for?

This Council is oblivious to what is going on in this country, people are being hit for six by this Conservative Government and are struggling day by day, yet idiotic councils just think they can keep hitting us with charge after charge.

Councillor John also states that the cost to park is cheaper than a lot of other councils, and certainly cheaper than Cardiff, it's not cheaper than Cardiff Bay, or McArthurGlen, these are free, and who really cares about other towns and cities, this is Barry.

Once again the Vale Council is take, take, take, not satisfied with charging us for waste food bags, parking is next, I have no doubt there will will be more council consultations to see what they can hit us with next.

If any Vale residents has any good ideas as to what this Vale circus can hit us with next send your ideas to Vale Circus, Barry.

Roll on the election so we can kick them out of office.

D J Radford

Coleridge Crescent

Barry