At that time I think the return ticket cost £1.20 from Moorhill Road to the top of the Parade for my wife and myself.

The reply from the operator was that the machines could not issue a return ticket.

More recently, along with many others, I was informed that my council rate rise was to be double the rate of inflation, so I then asked the head of finance of Warwick District Council, Mr Mike Snow, who are paying the bus operators for their services. In his reply he said he was unaware that the bus operators had stopped offering return fares and asked me to speak to Mr Richard Tuck as he was also unaware of any changes in the fare structure.

I spoke with Mr Tuck who informed me that the bus drivers do not have to issue tickets now but did not tell me how they are reimbursed if they have no account for the charge of carrying passengers.

I have of course written to Mr Snow about the conversation I had with Mr Tuck with the observation that the casual use of ratepayers' money appears to be the least of concern to either man. - W S Baker, Moorhill Road, Whitnash.