COMING home on New Year's Day from St Peter's Church in Mill Hill, Blackburn, I heard the sound of a car running over a broken bottle.
The driver was lucky that his tyre didn't burst, but as he had left bits of broken glass in the road the next cars would not be so lucky.
A few moments later, I saw some lads, one of whom kicked another bottle on to Preston Old Road. I yelled at him to pack it in and I think the danger of what he had done registered, for he retrieved the bottle which, fortunately, wasn't broken.
However, all over this town and others, we find broken bottles, cans and other rubbish. Just why folk don't teach their kids to keep this town tidy and keep it tidy themselves? It's disgusting what they all do to Blackburn!
GORDON PADGETT, Bridgewater Court, Bath Street, Blackburn.
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