WE trust that the Council is more successful with another bid following the rejection of a £20 million gambit to spruce up Breightmet, Burnden and Tonge areas.
If they do manage to get some money, though, we hope that it is rather more visible, and sooner, than it has been elsewhere. Nothing makes residents more twitchy and dissatisfied than knowing that millions have been granted, but that it appears to have been stalled lengthily in the Bermuda Triangle.
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