SIR: Part of my letter headed "That old chestnut" (Your views, February 18) about Bolton Council's stance over Birtenshaw farmland was omitted.
My original letter which I submitted read: "For the benefit of those members who quoted Nicholas Ridley as the former Tory Environment Secretary responsible for overturning the inspector's findings against Barratt, it was Patrick Jenkin who held the office of Secretary of State at that time, although the under-secretary Neil MacFarlane is credited with the deed. (BEN November 24, 1988."
Nicholas Ridley, in fact, was the minister who refused to release the covenant and issued a press release to the effect that the ban on development at Birtenshaw farmland was to remain. (November 23, 1988).
Fly on the wall
Bolton
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