AS a representative for the disabled and the pensioners of South Ribble I wish to know why the roads and footpaths within the borough have been left in such a state.

Your article in last week's paper states that were 160 gritting vehicles out in Lancashire, yet I never saw any at all in Leyland.

We have witnessed children actually throwing water on the sloping roads on the Broadfield estate to enable them to slide, if grit had been available it could have been stopped.

Old and disabled people have not been able to get out for fear of falling and there has been no response from anyone. I would like to know how many more casualties there have been over the cold period and what the cost is for treatment.

There was information in last week's Citizen appertaining to cuts in police and cuts for local authorities and that the additional burden would have to go on this year's council tax.

We are paying more and more in tax every year and getting less and less for it. Cuts in this and that are never ending, there has to be a limit some time or else we will be witnessing total anarchy with people refusing to pay until they obtain all of the services to which we are contributing.

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