WHILE walking down a street near Blackpool town centre on July 23 I passed an old warehouse with bricked-up windows.

I was more than a little surprised to see a landau carriage parked in the entrance and a trailer full of horse manure.

The warehouse door was open and I could see a horse standing inside.

Surely it cannot be lawful to stable a horse in such a totally unsuitable environment.

I may be old fashioned but I was brought up to believe that horses lived in purpose-built stables, down leafy lanes by pastures green.

If the situation I witnessed is lawful, then is it not time the law was changed.

Ms R Page,

Kingsmede.

Blackpool.

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