THE time when you went down to your local pub for a night out is fast coming to an end. Now it's wine bars and strip joints all over England.

Why are local people going to other areas to spend their hard-earned cash when they could spend it in a local place helping out local businesses?

It seems to me that if Blackburn would be the only place in East Lancs to have such an establishment then a lot of people would be coming to Blackburn to use it.

If people don't want to use it, fine, they don't have to.

A GIANSOLDATI, Gloucester Road, Blackburn.