I AM a member of Manchester Road Park Ladies Bowling Club in Bury. In the middle of the 1998 season, we were given 24 hours notice to vacate the building. We did this thinking that it was to be subsequently used for local young people.

Eighteen months later it is still empty, and is now boarded-up. We kept the building clean and well maintained and, as it was only ten yards from the green, it was very convenient for toilets and for catering.

So, if the council are reportedly prepared to help build a new centre for Asians, why can't we have our building back? It would cost nothing to do that, and it would help make the park look smarter than it is now with the bowling club windows boarded -up.

I cannot understand why, in the same area of Bury, they can think of providing a new sporting facility when they have boarded-up three rooms in a perfectly good, existing building and so lost a facility to the town.

LADY BOWLER

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