MAY I reply to two of your correspondents (Yours Views, October 13). Both writers are attacking Mrs Christine Adams but showed such ignorance they failed to give her her title. So, in answering their points I am going to show the same disrespect to them. Therefore, Ivers, I would inform you that Mrs Adams is a lady with manners, as are most Conservatives.

Next, who is Councillor Stones as I fail to see any fiscal improvements in Farnworth which I rarely visit?Also, Ivers, Mrs Adams is observant. Your halo must be blinding you to the town's failing.

Now, Spencer, who presumes to be a Councillor but without manners to give neither Mrs Adamsn or Dr Brian Iddon their titles, Spencer dwells mostly on the tidiness of Farnworth. But on my rare visits to the town I wonder whenever the people in the town gather the rubbish they deposit on the streets and the lawns at the main entrance to the park plus the supposedly newly laid out patch at the King Street/Market Street corner. It is a perfect disgrace.

Ivers says millions of pounds have been invested in Farnworth. Does he daydream? I simply wonder if anything over £1 has been expended let alone the vast sum stated. I am sure Farnworth, or Fernworth, as it then was, was better planned, administered and cleaner when the Romans left in the 5th century.

Finally, gentlemen, I hope you will appreciate what it feels like to be impolitely treated. I have written in this vein to give you a taste of your own medicine and give you an instruction my dear late father always taught me. The lesson was this: "Remember courtesy is due to a beggar on the street".

Miss D Waters

Winifred Road

Farnworth

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