I REFER to my letter concerning referendums in last week's Review in which I said that to take the ballot forms away and count the votes in secret elsewhere is giving the impression that Harold Wilson and David Cameron only announced the results they were hoping for rather than the way the electorate voted.

Thanks to Mr Geoff Timms who was at the count in Cinderford, I now know that the referendum votes for the Forest of Dean constituency were counted and announced in Cinderford. I shall be having 'words' with my informant in due course.

Whereas the European Commission will insist upon a second referendum whenever the people, in their opinion, vote the wrong way, I believe we should hold a second referendum in the interests of democracy. We should switch to the alternative vote system, hold the next couple of elections by that method, and then have a second referendum. Not because the people voted the wrong way, but because holding the referendum before experiencing what we were voting for was doing things the wrong way round.

– Anthony Reeve, Oak Way, Littledean.