IN the world of acting, when they wish a colleague “good luck”, I believe they say, “break a leg”.

We don’t need to go to the theatre, we just have to negotiate the disgusting state of the pavements here in Darwen.

We cannot go more than a couple of metres without some form of “trip hazard”.

The council staff then come along come along and mark about one fault in ten and the majority of those marked are given a purely cosmetic repair. They spend more “bodging” the job up than repairing it properly.

Mind you, if the job had been professionally supervised in the first place, these repairs would not have been necessary.

Maurice Rogers, Darwen