REGARDING letters about the Arc Light Centre moving to Shipton Street School, what is wrong in being a Nimby (not in my back yard)?

What is wrong in wanting your children and house to be safe from ex-drug dealers, ex-burglars, ex-drunks. I use the term ex loosely as looking at the "In Court" feature in the Press, the Arc Light Centre crops up alarmingly often.

Once again the law-abiding people in this country must take the awful truth that the inactivity of councils and the Government means that decent people do not come first.

N Hillen,

Wains Road,

Dringhouses, York.

Updated: 10:09 Tuesday, August 16, 2005