F BURNS (Letters, may 14) painted a clear picture of Blackburn, but who cares? Certainly not the council, or someone in the town hall would have twigged by now that we're not a happy lot.

But even more disgusting than the subway, which can be cleaned up, was the sight of a fully-grown tree - not a particularly beautiful one, but one that has stood for 100 years only to have a mindless moron remove a two-foot wide ring of bark, thus signing its death warrant.

But who cares? It's just an old tree.

SAM SPENCE, Ribblesdale Place, Blackburn.

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