PACKET readers will remember the recent fiasco when Cornwall Council moved to convert the town's public toilets to pay-to-enter or to close them completely, and they were rescued by the town council who stepped in to save them at the last minute.

Recently the council have been involved in arranging some very necessary work on the trees in Kimberley Park.

Quotations for this work were negotiated by the town council’s officers, and your readers will be interested to know that the quotation finally accepted will save Falmouth council tax payers £1724 against the cost originally anticipated for this work.

Further proof, if any is needed, that local hands-on management from our own town hall gives residents the best value. Localism works.

Oliver Cramp
Falmouth Town Councillor