[Margaret Pilkington]

I would happily participate in a community clean up, but I know that a couple of days later, the work that I might have done removing rubbish and graffiti will have been undone by irresponsible people who do not care about the environment that they live in. It makes me wonder at the state of the houses that some of these people live in. I find it totally depressing to watch young mothers allow their toddler children to discard wrappers from pasties and sausage rolls by just throwing them in the street......especially as there are places to dispose of these items of rubbish.

Much more could be made of our town centre...it has a sad down at heel feel to it. No amount of rose tinted spectacles can alter that fact.