ONCE again industry has seen closures and redundancies take place with the closing of the Peugeot car firm.

By its own admission the factory was making profit.

Its only crime, if you can call it that, was that the owners were not making the same profits as other works abroad.

Surely at a time when many firms are going under, showing loss after loss, would it not have been possible for the government to take over, buy the firm and run it efficiently with public money?

People are sick of subsidising some of the fantasies of the government, pouring money into losing enterprises.

Let's not forget the many workers whose lives will now be turned upside down by the closures.

Not a pleasant thing to cope with in this day and age.

MRS ROSEMARY SPEDDING, Oswald Street, Accrington.