REGARDING the ragwort plant, is the Department of the Environment Food and Rural Affairs not based in our area -- because no matter where you go around Blackburn there it is growing hale and hearty.
I travel via Oswaldtwistle and the M65 to Darwen, all the roadsides are full of this plant. Land at the side of the motorway is also full of it.
You can travel along the A666 towards Bull Hill and the fields look like fields of rapeseed, but it's all ragwort.
The only place I have ever seen council workers pulling it up is at Simonstone down the sides of the dual carriageway at Junction 8 of the M65.
Not all the land that ragwort grows on is derelict. Someone owns nearly all the land around and should be made responsible. What we see this year will treble next.
MRS ENTWISTLE, Dorchester Avenue, Oswaldtwistle.
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