THE problems highlighted in your editorial about disgusting behaviour and litter strewn streets are not confined to the Promenade and town centre or, sadly, to the behaviour of visitors.

The slip road leading to the West Park Drive entrance of Stanley Park is a favourite spot for the consumption of takeaway food by visitors and locals alike. This is usually done by visitors during the day and by locals after dark.

The results are the same. The remains of the feast are dumped on the grass verges or in the middle of the road. This is also a favourite spot for the changing of disposable nappies which are "disposed"of as above although a smart young mother added a new dimension to this aspect of child care last week.

She placed a child's "potty" on the pavement, seated her little girl upon it and waited for the inevitable, after which she transferred the contents to a plastic bag which she tied neatly in a bow before driving away in her newish car leaving the plastic bag in the middle of the footpath! Readers may be interested and amused by the antics of coach passengers who attend various sporting events in the park. The common feature of this behaviour is the public urinating carried out upon de-bussing, within full view of the houses on West Park Drive, families with children waiting at the bus stop and using the park.

Participants in such events have been the main culprits in trampling down the chain link fence surrounding that area of

the park. I have spoken to a number of people about leaving litter. In the main they are otherwise respectable families visiting Blackpool for the day who just don't think!

Requests to the council for a clean up will, on occasions, produce a small sweeping vehicle which does nothing whatsoever to remove rubbish which is not actually left on the road.

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