SIR: I am from Bolton originally but now live in Colorado USA

I just had to make a comment about the man who wrote in about the Fool Monty photograph.

This man is obviously back in the 1800s. We are almost on the year 2000. To express yourself in the way they did is acceptable whether he likes it or not.

So I suggest he gets up to date or stays locked in his home neither watching television nor reading any newpapers.

I read the Bolton Evening News every day on the web and think it's a great paper. Keep up the good work and forget about the people stuck in the 1800s

Andy Barlow

(originally from

Westhoughton)

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