THE news that Manchester is in the throes of rebuilding its large Arndale shopping complex and Birmingham has just rebuilt the Bullring and Liverpool is developing a large area of their dockland in time for the title of 'City of Culture' doesn't say much for Blackpool's much hyped regeneration plans as there is as yet no movement in this direction.

There is one thing for certain, Blackpool will never earn this title. It was a joke when they applied for City status.

Everything in this town is a joke, it is a decrepit town of make believe, you can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear.

M Weighman, Molyneux Drive, Blackpool