HOW delighted I was to see that John Tanner, the county and city councillor, was finally profiled in your Life Lessons column (July 30).

It was high time that we learned a little more of this most self-effacing of local politicians.

I can sincerely state that I genuinely believe that his heart is in the right place.

Whether this applies to some of the rest of him, though, is not a matter upon which I should presume to comment.

DAVID DIMENT, Riverside Court, Oxford