I WAS interested to read your article (LET, January 7) on the new Hyndburn street map which has been published by the council.

In the article, Hyndburn's tourism development officer Fiona Leinster-Evens, says that the map is based on the latest Ordnance Survey map and was "the most accurate we could produce."

She goes on to say that the council tried to ensure there are as few errors as possible - but there are some. Too right there are - 178 to be precise. If Hyndburn Council had not been so pig-headed and used the data provided by Adrian Shurmer, then they would have produced a first-class guide.

The best they can do is withdraw this useless document and start again. I think it highlights just how bad this map is, when, in the photographs and editorial, the Haworth Art Gallery takes some preference and it also mentions its collection of Tiffany Glass. Unfortunately, Haworth Art Gallery or Park do not appear in the index.

No doubt tourists will be playing hide and seek when they are trying to look at our treasures. It is hardly any wonder that borough solicitor Gordon McMillan would not comment.

It really is an indictment of Hyndburn Borough Council when they can throw away work painstakingly carried out over many years by Adrian Shurmer, and come up with this abysmal replacement.

One has to think that Hyndburn should be twinned with Toytown, because it certainly looks like it is being run by Noddy and Big Ears - that is until May, hopefully.

JOHN D FARRER, Mallard Place, Oswaldtwistle.

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