ONCE more I note the Bolton Evening News, ie Friday night's paper, featured negative issues concerning Bromwich Street and The Haulgh. Not a night goes by without some mention about Bromwich Street.

I have lived in Bromwich Street for the past 19 years, the remaining three years I have had my house on the market -- unsuccessfully. Every time I felt I may have been in with a chance, bad news hits the headlines.

Well, now I have decided to throw in the towel and stay put. All I can say is -- hard cheese, if you don't want my lovely property, with sunny back garden and patio, visited by squirrels and a variety of wild birds. It's a little micro climate with trees, shrubs and tender plants growing in profusion.

Also I think about the money I have saved over the years, walking to and from town, plenty of exercise, no parking fees, no bus fares. What more could one ask? Just because five per cent of the population blight the area, it doesn't mean the rest of us live like pigs. Most of the residents are decent, respectable people with decent homes with neat gardens who care about their environment.

I will live in hope, after the tragic death of Carly Bateman, that the police and Bolton Council will strive to rid the area of the offensive practices and give us back our respectable street.

I suggest -- blitz the offending properties, move the prostitutes to a non-residential area, get rid of the telephone boxes, and change the name of the street, and then, if I decide to place my home back on the market, I may stand a chance of selling, or, just maybe, I may decide it's not such a bad place to live after all.

Bromwich Street resident