SIR: I write simply to express sympathy with Mr Jackson's views (Your view, July 7).

Whose bright idea was it to abandon Wakes Week after what must be over 100 years? What possible reason could there be - none, just dogma or someone's small minded sense of tidiness and conformity.

It is only important to me while my children are still at school since I am then tied to school holidays.

I tried last year exercising the option of removing my children from school for the two weeks, but I regretted it for the next year for the tail end of the academic year is a time for tests/assessments/setting, whichever of these statements are currently acceptable.

I would dearly love to see the return of Wakes Week, but time is running out for me to benefit. Why can't we, the customers, have what we want. To have put through such a fundamental change to a whole town a poll should have been held, after a period of debate to bring out all the issues, to test people's views before acting upon them and not against them.

I do not know one person, yet, who wanted to get rid of them.

Colin Greenhalgh

Druids Close, Egerton

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