Tom Levitt needs all the friends he can get if he is to hang onto his slim majority come the next election but I think hitching himself so completely to the Nestle cause does him no favours.

Whatever people's feelings about Nestle's continuing mis-marketing of baby milk in Africa and other developing countries, an activity which continues to be fought against by the Baby Food Action Network around the world, he needs to act closer to home.

For years we have watched and waited for the Crescent to develop into the Spa hotel to end all Spas.

We know that Nestle proved more than obdurate in assisting our community and the developers get on with the job.

Now we hear that it is the Councils which have not got their act together and we continue to listen to promises which never happen.
Tom Levitt sat on the Derbyshire County Council for long enough.

He knows Nestle well enough to receive Centre Court tickets and be flown out to South Africa by them. What has he done for us?

If you are that comfortable with supping from the corporate table, why have you not been more active in bending Nestle's ear on getting this project off the ground? It is by your actions you are judged, Tom, not by sycophantic little press pieces praising a corporation with a dodgy marketing record.

Patrick Chapman
Grosvenor House
Broad Walk
Buxton