HEATHER Stott is quite correct -- 10 years absent or not -- in describing Blackburn shopping centre as being like a tiled toilet (LET, October 3).

That, I'm afraid, is exactly what it is and the stairs at the side of the clock tower-cum-lift are where a lot of the pub and clubgoers do most of their urinating between venues.

Perhaps if Councillor Ashley Whalley paid the site a visit, he too would feel like throwing up like the rest of us.

SAM SPENCE, Ribblesdale Place, Blackburn.