WHAT wonderful weather we have had between Christmas and New Year.

People from far and wide as well as locals have taken advantage of it by walking the magnificent snow-covered Darwen Moors -- only to find the main attraction , the Tower, still closed after all this time.

As well as witnessing the disappointment of people getting to the entrance and finding it closed, I have seen others squeezing through the rather inadequate barriers and walking up to the first landing.

If the Tower is unsafe, as the notice there states, surely the barriers should be more substantial. If this was a private building -- a closed-down works, say -- no doubt an enforcement notice would be served on the owners to make it secure.

Money is always tight, as most sensible people realise, but 100 per cent of the people in Darwen would see the repairing of their beloved Tower as a priority over such projects as the 'Welcome to Bedrock' statue at the motorway junction.

Come on council, the foot and mouth disease epidemic is over -- let's see a bit of the Council Tax that goes over the old 'borough boundary' finding it sway back to get this famous landmark open.

HARRY ASPIN, Coniston Drive, Darwen.