REGARDING your report on the chemicals alert (LET, February 29), how many more incidents are yet to be discovered? Is Oswaldtwistle an almighty dumping ground for all and sundry?

I am very angry to find that once again we have an "incident" in our midst. Chemicals seem to be coming at residents from all directions, the latest being buried in drums under a factory on Victoria Street.

The number of children and elderly folk in our town is quite considerable and it is about time the council, and especially leader Peter Britcliffe, got involved to see just what sort of town we are living in.

As acting chairman of Oswaldtwistle Residents Against Toxic Emissions, I feel that we, as a community, must act as one to eradicate all potential harm from our town.

Now that NIPA has been bought by a Scandinavian company, we hope that they are environmentally more concerned than the lip service we have been used to in the past.

This is a nice town - let's keep it a clean town.

EILEEN LONGWORTH, Thwaites Street, Oswaldtwistle.

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