Whilst most towns or places wake up to bird song Darwen wakes up this Friday morning to the dulcet tones of a police siren before 9 am.

Conducted to the scherzo of minor rumblings in the neighborhood conjuring thoughts of 'oh, here they go again' and 'who are they chasing this time?' But is this a small Lancashire town or Fort Apache The Bronx?

Nice to see the health centre is being demolished after months of looking like a bedraggled cast off from the set of Assault on Precinct 13 or is it Die Hard 5: When Entropy Attacks? Except there's no John Maclane around to save everyone from the simmering beneath the rubble, the 'on edge' feeling of something about to boil over. The demolished bricks of the health centre counterpointing the entropy the town has been 'besieged' to by crazy planning to name but few.

Don't get me wrong. Darwen isn't irredeemable if it's given a chance. But some out there appear to want to stifle and silence it. To keep it in the past, not allow it to move forward with the times, changing and progressive thinking which usually brings positive vibes and optimistic speculation to communities. That hope is there, that change is coming for the better.

Some speculate that, in the near future, Darwen could be quite a really nice place to live. It could. With the right impetus. Again, if given a chance to change, to flourish. But entropy seems to have gotten interwoven into the infrastructure of the town, creating a downward spiral.

Kind of like the Good Samaritan. Darwen sorely needs someone to pick it up, dust it down ... And set it on it's way to improvement.

This hadn't intended to be a long piece this time but thoughts come to me as I type away.

That the underlying ferocity of the police sirens heard often without fail daily underscores entropy.

Again, Darwen is a small town in Lancashire ... Not a fascimile of The Bronx as was.

And, with the right 'impetus' one day the sirens may be a thing of the past. And the suggestion it implies or connotes as well.

Something to dwell upon for the future and generations to come.