Thank you for your reply to my last e-mail in which I asked if you could help Neil Turner in the monitoring of the Sonae Factory.

You state in your reply that the plant operates within the "statutory limits" laid down under the" environmental protection act 1990 and guidance documents" could you please be more open with me and tell me the exact parts of the act you are referring to and guidance guidelines and if possible send me copies of the said documentation as this would help me understand what you are using as your precedent.

You also state that the monitoring of the plant is carried out on a "regular basis" and to an "agreed accredited procedure". does this mean that your officers have to ask Sonae for permission to go on site and take the reading?, I think this is the agreed procedure, this is not in my humble opinion, independent, this is like the police knowing that a gang of drug dealers are operating in a house and then telling them they will be raided on a given time and date, I don't think the police would find much drugs do you?

After reading your reply it would seem that you are totally oblivious to just what is happening in the Sonae plant, and frankly I don't think you care, the e-mail reads like looking at an instruction manual for M.F.I furniture, totally misleading - you know -' this is how it should be but if its not then oh well never mind '.

I have been told on many occasions that the council would need evidence if it was to take action against the Sonae and I have requested that the council take independent reading of the contamination that is released by the Sonae, and I know the Sonae do not have to let the council onto there property, but this does not mean the council can not implement there monitoring from outside.

I also understand making the main chimney stack higher 'might' reduce the stench from the plant, but if it does not COMPLETELY remove the stench them it should be deemed to be a failure and shut down until it can prove it can operate without the stench being released over Kirkby.

But in the mean time the people of Northwood are still being contaminated with the dust from the plant this has been going on since the plant opened and nothing has been done to stop the contamination, it should not matter if the dust is causing the people of Kirkby to get sick or for their eyes, nose and throat to sting, the fact is they are being covered in the dust! This is an affront to their and my own basic human rights and you - the Council of Knowsley - the people who have taken the money and life style and the positions - are not doing anything to stop the contamination.

I have noticed in the "LIVERPOOL ECHO" that you and your closest friends have been given a 15% pay rise, this would make your salary rise to £153,000 plus. This is sickening when you think of it, well maybe not to you, but for the ordinary people of Kirkby. May I remind you that you and your closest friends are in Kirkby and not London, you do not have the cost of living associated with London and the position you hold should not carry a salary of that magnitude, and if you or your closest friends don't like the very great honour that has been bestowed on yourselves, that is to represent the people of Knowsley, then by all means please leave, your positions are privileged, and should not be used to make you and your closest friends rich men.

The jobs you and your closest friends hold can be filled, and the work would be done, with or without you and your closest friends and it would not cost the tax payers of Knowsley as much.

Mr Gallagher, if you cared for the Knowsley community, you and your closest friends would reject the pay award and ask the forgiveness of the people of Knowsley for your total disregard of the Knowsley peoples feelings, on the way you and your closest friends conduct yourselves.

yours

Joe