I AGREE with Mr Spence (Letters, September 15) that maybe we should do away with the people who monitor the street cleansing and use the money to put more actual workers on sweeping.

I agree more so, because having studied the agendas of the council committees, I found that the monitors always reported that the contractor performed to a 100 per cent standard of the street cleansing contract.

If this is the case, how come Mr Spence's area came to be in such a poor condition? Assuming the council's contract is in line with requirements of the Environmental Protection Act, the Devonport Road area of Blackburn should have been returned to class one standard within six hours.

If anyone has the time, the Tidy Britain Group will, I think, provide them with information on how to recover part of their council tax if the council fails to clean their area satisfactorily. The process, I am told, is comparatively easy.

G SMITH, Bold Street, Blackburn.

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