I HAVE just read the article on cuts in council pest control.

I appreciate that our council along with many others have to make drastic cut backs but I think that this should be one of the last services that should be cut.

They say that you are never more than 10 feet from a rat, in which case what would happen if our pest control was scrapped?

We would be overrun with vermin. Rats,mice,insects, they are all part of life,but we don't necessarily want them near or in our homes.

The council do a brilliant job with their pest control and I agree there are other pest control services, but at a cost.

If this service was scrapped then we run the risk of becoming overrun with vermin as a lot of families would not be able to afford the costs. Maybe a moderate price increase should be looked at more closely before any firm decision is made.

Jill Lazenby Laidon Avenue