I WAS passing the graveyard of St Peter's Church the other day as I've done many times over the years, but the difference when passing now is I can't help feeling sadness and a bit angry knowing that in the not so distant future these graves are to be dug up and the remains removed, carefully and sensitively the council says.

But at the end of the day, there is no sensitive way of doing it as these graves should not be touched in the first place.

It is wrong and disrespectful. This road should be built around this graveyard whatever the cost. Let's face it, if royalty was buried there they would not go within a mile of it.

Oh yes, without a shadow of a doubt they would soon find a way of building the road around this graveyard then.

And it is said this is a fair country (what a joke).

The people buried there were once living their lives in Blackburn as we are doing now and should be respected and left alone. The powers that be in this country can't leave you alone in life, interfering with almost your every move and even after death in some cases still can't leave you alone.

M GORTON, Blackburn.