AFTER watching the BBC television programme about drugs on the "Dicky Bird" estate in Bury I feel I must say something.
I lived on Ferngrove in Bury in the late 1950s and Goldfinch in the 1960s before moving away and returning to Bury in 2003. The picture the programme portrayed was far from the truth.
Yes, there is a drugs problem there, as there is everywhere today. But for every drug dealer there are hundreds of decent people who have bought their homes, keep them clean, and work for a living. Drug dealers are very much in the minority; not the majority. And the problem is concentrated into one small area.
One of the drug dealers featured, called "Sonny", does not even live on the estate, while the kids shown now all think they are big-time gangsters.
Give us a break and send the cameras to film the decent people who live here.
"DICKY BIRD" RESIDENT
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