FROM their comments (Letters, November 3), it appears that the three Wensley Fold, Blackburn, councillors, Don Rishton, Mohammed Khan and Kate Hollern, are living in the past.

For we are now almost a decade on from City Challenge making many of the points they made irrelevant and old hat.

However, the site visit and walkabout on the Ashworth Street estate that they so readily mention (and here, at least, we have an up-to-date problem) had nothing whatsoever to do with either Councillor Khan or Councillor Kate Hollern.

This was, in fact, organised by me with some co-operation and action by Councillor Rishton.

Yet reading between the lines of their somewhat lengthy prose, you could be led to believe that this was their project, not so.

For I did this at the request of many concerned residents and owner-occupiers -- to point out the numerous cases of neglect to the fabric of a once-lovely estate.

It was also pointed out that recent contract to paint and or replace doors and windows, which was badly carried out, remained unfinished with all relevant contractors being only conspicuous by their absence.

Our estate remains on its way to dereliction, with numerous problems not being addressed by our Labour council.

P NEWTON (MR), Ashworth Close, Blackburn.

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