I COULDN'T believe what I was reading, so I read it again -- your article headlined "Idle £150,000 fountain branded a 'disgrace'" (LET, June 19).

I can fully understand how chairman of Accrington Civic Trust Alan Benson is so annoyed. How could this be allowed to happen? Why wasn't something done back in 1999, as the fountain only worked briefly twice?

What a waste of European grant money. I think it is scandalous.

A HESKETH (Mrs), Manxman Road, Blackburn.