POOR Morecambe! Another festival hits the dirt and Ron Sands continues to do a head count at the tourist information office. Well Ron, the numbers will always be high, because it's about the only place left open!

Instead of kidding ourselves that all is well when we all know its not! Let's get radical and face up to what we all know must be done.

The Midland sits there like an old ship at the breakers yard, without a buyer in sight. It doesn't take a genius to calculate the amount of money that its rooms can generate and the amount needed for repairs, one doesn't justify the other and never will! But give it something like a casino licence and there will be a queue of buyers to the lifeboat station!

Then we have Bubbles playing the waiting game. Get rid of this drain on our public purse and put a sheltered marina in its place and you have instant commerce because such a site would need supplies of fuel, repairs, food etc. and many jobs would be created as a result (not to mention mooring charges).

Now we come to the Winter Gardens (or Victoria Pavilion if you prefer). Here we have another dilemma because it can't hold huge concerts like the G-Mex as it's not big enough to generate the ticket sales needed for massive stars, so why not have smaller shows geared towards comedy such as stand up and house a museum on the ground floor dedicated to all the amazing talent that has originated in the North West over the years.

We have the sites to put Morecambe well and truly on the map as a modern upmarket seaside town of the future and with our incredible views and sunsets, we would really have a town worth visiting.

B Smith Promenade Pottery