MY master has been reading some interesting points to me from the Bury Times (April 30).

Firstly, regarding the excellent news that the council is to provide poop waste bins. My master is very pleased because he always scoops my poops, but he doesn't like too long a journey home. Please could we have lots more bins on the streets as well.

Secondly, as "Concerned Resident" on the Letters page so rightly says, scramblers and bikers are horrendous. Around both Elton reservoirs, the canal towpaths, the "Triangle" and "Plateau" behind the Derby School, and on Openshaw Fold Road they are a nightmare. I am terrified when I hear them, let alone when they go past. I have to be kept on a lead for my own safety (though I am far too well trained to even think of chasing the horrid things).

The destruction of the ground is appalling and after walkies I have to have all the mud washed off. Perhaps the council will look seriously at prohibiting all motor bikes on the proposed Daisyfield Regeneration Corridor (p17) before that suffers the same fate.

And what about the recent devastation of the wild area between Openshaw Fold Road and the railway line (rumours say it is for housing), just as birds wanted to build their nests? There was a lot of other wildlife there, too, and for all us mutts it was a wonderful place to run, hunt and chase rabbits.

K9

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