Plymouth pensioners and Devonport MP Oliver Colvile to questions South West Water over bills

Well done to Plymouth pensioners for securing the opportunity to question South West Water over the size of region's water bills.

With the help of Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP Oliver Colvile, the Plymouth and District Pensioners Action Group will quiz officials from the water company at St Budeaux Community Centre on July 8.

Their chairman, Tom Williams, told us that his members would be preparing questions before the meeting, in the hope that SWW will be able to give full answers.

Good for them. Pensioners, like everyone on fixed incomes – and in the current economic climate of pay freezes, that means most of us – are suffering under the burden of the highest water charges in England.

It is right that they should get the chance to put their concerns to officials from SWW, and hopefully get answers to their questions which will be of interest to the wider community.

Encounters such as this, combined with the welcome cross-party move by South West MPs to back government proposals to cut rocketing water bills, can only add to the pressure on SWW and its owners to do something positive to give the long-suffering public here a break.