I WRITE regarding Mrs Breakell's letter (Feb 11 edition) and the remark she made saying the streets of Lostock Hall are disgusting.

I only want to comment on one aspect of what she said, that is "South Ribble have notices up, etc, ... so where are the people who patrol?".

I would inform Mrs Breakell that when I last asked South Ribble Borough Council not very long ago about this same problem I was told by the person I spoke to in the environmental health department that 'the council only employed two dog wardens' and that they expected the public to come forward and notify the dog wardens of people they see allowing their dogs to foul.

So Mrs Breakell if you fancy reporting one of your neighbours for allowing their dogs to foul, with all the red tape that entails, like giving a written statement to the dog wardens knowing the name of the person in charge of the dog at the time and also knowing where the person and the dog live.

You may also be required to give up a whole day to go to court if the person does not pay the fixed penalty ticket. Then be my guest.

You see Mrs Breakell, I for quite a number of years have had the impression that SRBC think that South Ribble Borough means only Leyland and the full time council staff and the councillors in South Ribble just do not give a twopenny damn about the rest of the large area that really is the borough, their only concern is the Towngate area of Leyland and nowhere else and I am not the only person in South Ribble who thinks this way.

Two dog wardens to cover the whole of South Ribble what the hell do we pay our council tax for I wonder!

Pretty hanging baskets in the center of Lostock Hall and a Christmas Tree at Christmas? Oh, and our bins emptied once a week when this shambles of a firm of new contractors do their job properly?

Mrs Breakell, there are loads of more important problems that need to be addressed in Lostock Hall by this council of ours that thinks South Ribble boundaries end at the old Police station on Chapel Brow the Leyland Tiger and the Seven Stars, besides the small amount of dog excrement on our footpaths.

Realist, Lostock Hall.

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