Sir, The people of Arran (all of them) are angry and justifiably so. I applaud Chris Traill’s letter in the Arran Banner last week and subsequent letter from Neil Arthur, together with the editorial contribution and Hugh Boag’s headline article.
As some may hope, this is a subject which is not going to go away, but the suggestion that we think very carefully before putting our cross on the ballot papers on May 4 is very relevant.
This prompts me to suggest that our local community council or the Arran Banner should be placing a demand on North Ayrshire Council under the Freedom of Information Act, for publication (before May 4) of a list of the names of those councillors who can be shown to have supported the closure decision, on any occasion, when the issue of toilets closure was subject to a vote. You can bet that none of them was representing Arran. It is particularly galling now to discover that those facilities in Ardrossan and Saltcoats are to be kept open, at the behest of one wellintentioned councillor. His reason? ‘Large areas with no alternative.’