AFTER reading the BEN on December 8 regarding the 16 million pounds Bolton council have to spend on the Bolton area, it just made me think where they plan on spending it, or should I say (wasting it)? You see they only seem to spend all the money on the Daubhill and Deane areas. We in the Kearsley area never get a look in. Yes KEARSLEY. You know that little place at the end of St Peters Way, just after Farnworth.

We have been promised for years now that we will get home improvements but yet nothing ever happens. Do these people ever leave their desks? You see over the last 20 years or so all the surrounding areas have been modernised. OK they put in new windows a few years ago but that is it. A large percentage still have downstairs toilets which, in my view is not acceptable. There are a lot of OAPs who in the middle of the night have to climb dowstairs to go to the toilet. Surely this is not right and not safe.

So, Mister Council, what do you plan on doing with the money? Maybe a couple of nice statues or fancy lamp-posts or why not have a big Millennium bash

for you and all the others in the Town Hall. Or you could just make a New Year'ss resolution and spend the money where it's really needed. We wait with bated breath.

J Mason

Springfield Road

Kearsley

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