Well thank you very much Daniel Thwaites/the Yerburgh family for pulling the plug on Blackburn after over 200 years of loyalty from the workforce and the town, not forgetting all the people who have consumed Thwaites ales over the years.

Thwaites is, and always has been, the flagship of Blackburn's industry – a first-class brewery and a damn good employer.

So what has happened to your values?

Also, why all the cloak and dagger attitude regarding your future location?

Blackburn with Darwen Council has bent over backwards to help with the relocation. For instance, what is wrong with the currently derelict Whitebirk Retail Park?

What an ideal location, with the links to the motorway.

I hope you seriously rethink this potentially disastrous move.

BERNARD HAMMOND Feniscowles