Traffic lights, road signs and streetlights obscured by trees and bushes. Street signs so dirty or faded that a driver can’t read them.

Roads with either non-existent or extremely faded white lines. Very little enforcement of the law, e.g. against illegal parking. And now a cut of £257,000 in the winter gritting programme.

Are the Tory councillors or those who support them in our Council Chamber prepared to accept the consequences of their actions?

It wasn’t that long ago that road safety was top of the agenda in Bolton.

All our Tory councillors seem to do is blame their own government for this mess, but they helped to put it into power!

Brian Iddon

The latest news about the craze for vaping by a large number of young people creates an unknown environment.

Smoking has been proved to be hazardous to health but vaping hasn’t due to lack of evidence.

Nicotine by its nature is a poison, however in lower dose numbers, as with tobacco products and vaping, it creates a pleasurable but compulsive addiction.

Does vaping with nicotine create health problems that our medical watchdogs should warn us about - or is the jury still out being immersed within this vaping fog?

Either way, those who engage with vaping are playing the life dice and should at least be given an accurate scientific appraisal of the facts.

Phil Shepherdson