As many of your readers will know, Margaret MacKenzie has retired after her long service in local government.

But they might also care to know that it is not quite as over as they might think.

We have already co-opted her back on to the power station local committee.

As her successor as a Vale of White Horse district councillor, I am hoping to do something similar with the local waste committee in Appleford and Sutton Courtenay.

We value Mrs MacKenzie's long experience and considerable knowledge, as well as her charm in committee work, and we do not want to lose all that. Gervase Duffield, (Councillor), Sutton Courtenay and Appleford, Vale of White Horse District Council