I DO not believe that many will think it acceptable that the newly finished Churchgate street works are being dug up so soon after the £1m scheme was completed.

Bernard Knight, Bolton Council's outgoing chief executive, told this newspaper last autumn that his role involved working hard to deliver the finished article at Churchgate.

I would like to know if there was a meeting with the electricity utility supplier to demand assurances that the trunk cable under the area was not so old that it might need renewing within the next few years - or weeks even.

Simon Pearce, Lower House Walk, Bromley Cross, Bolton