AS a parent and a ratepayer I feel I must reply to Mrs Wright's letter (Aug 13) regarding the siting of Bury fair.

It is bad enough taking a child into town shopping under normal circumstances, with all the demands they make for sweets etc., without the added temptation of fairground rides. Does Mrs Wright want to remove more of my rights of choice? If the fair was on a park area, I could avoid it if I wanted to; in the town centre it cannot be avoided.

If Mrs Wright wants to make comparisons between towns then I, too, will make one.

I have just returned from Austria where I witnessed the complete closure of a town centre to stage a fair. It started at 4pm and finished at 4am, and by eight o'clock next morning not a single scrap of paper or broken glass remained, no evidence whatsoever of the huge party there had been just hours earlier.

As soon as the fair finished, the town council had their workmen ready to thoroughly clean the town from top to bottom. I came back to Bury the following day and felt ashamed at the rubbish and litter lying around.

Bury Council cannot keep our town centre clean under normal circumstances. So can we expect anything different after a visiting fair? I think not?

G. ADAMS,

Oswestry Close,

Greenmount, Bury.

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