I recall Blackburn selling off the council’s housing stock and now we have very few places for vulnerable or homeless people.

The council also sold off or closed the old folk’s homes with many being used as temporary accommodation for immigrants.

The council then sold off public transport and we now have an extremely poor service covering Roe Lee and Wilpshire, and no doubt many other areas.

The bus companies are complaining that not enough people use their services but recently I saw two buses pass several stops because they were packed. Many elderly people who were left at the stops had to wait for nearly an hour.

In the not too distant future, the market will close and the council will have got rid of something else they see as a burden, forgetting that many people prefer the markets with their independent stallholders.

In its place will be a new market with higher rents, and the stallholders that can afford to move will have to increase their prices substantially to survive.

Whatever happened to public interest? What’s next – the sale of the Town Hall?

Ian Davies, Openshaw Drive, Blackburn