A SHORT time ago your letters column carried comments on a piece of so-called art in the form of a 'metal tree' on the Greenbank business park in Blackburn.

Now that it has been pointed out to me, can I be forgiven for believing that this was an extension to the scrap found on the opposite side of the road? Recently, to save some thousands of pounds, the council voted for morning closure of the town's museum, where real and true art can be seen.

I realise that the cost of the so-called art on the Greenbank estate was small (only into four figures) compared with the savings from partial closure of the museum.

But from an early age I was taught to look after the pennies and the pounds would take care of themselves - something possibly unknown to the committee which approved the eyesore at Greenbank.

Money could have been saved by going to the scrap land opposite and buying the necessary metal for a 'tenner.'

H RAWCLIFFE, Grasmere Avenue, Lammack, Blackburn.

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