Work on Darwen Tower dome is set to start in October (LT, June 30).

The red tape involved in this project just highlights the inane, senseless time-wasting that is required in today’s modern society.

I would wager that if this incident happened 60 years ago, it would have simply been replaced the week it blew off, costing a fraction of today’s time-wasting bureaucratic blunderers!

We need councillors with a modicum of common sense and a genuine desire to serve the people.

Concerned 200, Blackburn (via email).