I WAS highly delighted today after shopping in Bolton, to see the gates unpadlocked on the Nelson Square public toilets, which have been locked up for the past 12 months or so. But on investigating further I found a solitary workman fitting cupboards at the bottom of the stairway.

I asked him were they about to open up again, and he said eventually, and I had been constantly worrying were the council going to sell all the public toilets off for offices or taxi services, just as Manchester were doing.

I travel extensively to different places via public transport, and whenever I talk to would-be visitors to the nice town with the cheapest market in the country, I tell them all there are very few public toilets open in Bolton and on Sundays none.

I would like to see a start on the ones outside the Market Place as well. The money would have been better spent than on the so-called revamp of the Town Hall Square, which looked perfectly well as it was before.

Mr J Boydell

Jutland Grove, Westhoughton

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