REGARDING your report of the floodlit figure of Christ on the cross in Preston New Road, Blackburn (LET, December 2), I think it is an excellent sculpture and will be sad to see it go, as was suggested in your article.

If it has to go, I feel it should be auctioned and sold to the highest bidder - the money being donated to charity.

However, I would prefer it to stay on a permanent basis.

MIKE HODGSON, The Coppice, Beardwood, Blackburn.

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