I AM a bowler in the Farnworth Parks Veterans League (Pensioners). For a good few years now I have got a leisure card to enable me to bowl on the park greens. This year, however, I find that there is an increase in the cost from £2.50 to £7.50 -- that is 200 per cent increase! This must be the biggest rise in cost in world history.
Whoever dreamt this up should be ashamed of themselves. We expect things to go up -- the rates are a good example -- but 200pc is ludicrous. On top of this, the greens, in Farnworth at least, are poorly maintained and the greens and facilities are vandalised almost on a daily basis. I am sure a lot more bowlers feel as I do and I suggest to whoever came up with this ridiculous increase -- have a rethink!
J Lane
St James Street
Farnworth
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