I read with interest your article (January 5) regarding the rubbish in Canvey Lake.

I suggest if the town council had co-operated with the angling club this time last year, this debris would have been removed by club members months ago, at no cost to the council.

As a matter of interest, the shopping trolley by the jetty has been there since last March.

While giving the lake the proposed professional clean-out next spring, can I suggest the “no fishing” signs, which cost more than £3,000, be removed as they have no legal standing and no by-laws to back them up?

I would also like to know what happened to the dredging of the lake that was promised for last autumn.

J Bannister
Linden Way
Canvey