I AM appalled by Goff Jones’s letter in which he writes as ‘UKIP’ which must be a new name for ‘Independent’. He complains about the closure of Pontymoile Primary School yet he was a Governor there and, according to records, attended only the AGM during 2013-14. He played no part in efforts that the governing body made to keep the school open and then to do their very best for the children who were to be moved in 2014-15. He sent no apologies for missing those meetings. The one person from the Council who tried, at Council meetings and outside, to fight against this closure was the Councillor for Cwmynyscoy, Neil Waite (Lab). Mr Jones has no right to criticise when he absented himself from any opportunity to do anything about it. To make his first public complaint five weeks after the school closed beggars belief.

John Killick, Blaenavon