IWAS astounded when I read about the council cutting down the daffodils in Blackburn and Darwen. Are they a bunch of nitwits in the gardening department?

Any gardener knows that if you leave them to die down naturally, you will get a better show next year.

If the council are so concerned about the place looking tidy, perhaps they should send out the gardeners to pick up all the litter scattered around the streets. I cannot remember Blackburn and Hyndburn ever being so dirty as they are now.

P WHITTLE, Henfield Close, Altham, Accrington.