[Doug]

I was having a look at them last night in fact. I was wondering what they’re going to look like in a week or two when they switch on. I love going to Ambleside or Lancaster at Christmas where the lights tend to be beautifully simple single and plan white bulbs drawn across the streets or festooned in and around the bared branches of trees. I noted that Broadway is slipping further into ill planned and dismal blandness, what a great pity that such an opportunity was wasted, my opinion. I like the area around and in front of the town all and for the life of me I can’t see what HBC thought they were going to achieve. Going back to the Accy Christmas lights, I would have thought that the costs of on site servicing, repair and or replacement and the health and safety implications of the lads working on them would be greater than the cost of taking them down, servicing and storing them safely over the winter and summer month. They might well end up replacing them altogether.