HOW wonderful to see the working of local government, albeit at second-hand. Blackburn with Darwen, the award-winning unitary authority, manages to upset even its lollipop people, never mind anybody else (LET, June 17).

And yet not a million miles away, presumably in order to stop children being killed by increasingly ignorant and wilful motorists, Labour Manchester City Council is advertising on lamp posts for 'lollipop' people.

Who has lost what used to pass for a plot?

J KENT (Mr), Fairfield Close, Clitheroe.