CAN'T someone in the ivory towers of Bury Town Hall do something about the rubbish tip that is Bury and its suburbs?

After Councillor Linda Harwood has walked - we hope - around the places suggested by T. W. D. Higgins (Your Letters, Oct 29) perhaps she could continue from The Rock towards Tesco and note the discarded drinks cans, fast food wrappers and paper scattered on the pathways and in the gutters.

If some of the Lottery money wasted on the "nothing" sculptures on the Irwell Valley Sculpture Trail was redirected to cleaning up the rubbish it would benefit far more ratepayers. The council may be promoting the Mill Gate precinct and the market as showpieces, but one has to make one's way through the litter to get there.

I should like to say, though, that the Mill Gate precinct is an example to the rest of the town. It is a delight to walk through the spotless arcades.

But how does the litter get on to our streets in the first place? It is deposited by our own citizens. Perhaps "responsibility" should be a subject added to the school curriculum - and it might help if some adults were also given a good talking to!

D. F. T.

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