I just can’t understand how Watford Borough Council allows Jimmy’s World Kitchen in the High Street to accumulate nearly a quarter of a million pounds in outstanding business rates over the past three years.

Quite frankly as a ratepayer myself It seems to me that the council have not been very successful and manageable in dealing with these unpaid rates, then allowing this situation to spiral out of control over the last three years.

Ernie Mackenzie, Gammons Lane, Watford