IT is good news that the council is to repair Darwen Tower (LET, September 12). Where else can you find a monument that can be seen from all points of the compass and for miles around? It is well worth preserving.

So I hope that kept well away from it are those so-called experts who stick lumps of metal on a wall and scrap metal on an island and call it art -- for fear of what they might do to the tower.

G PILKINGTON (Mr), St Michael's Court, Blackburn.