SIR: May I, through your column, say that the walls at the back of Vale Street, Horwich, look very much safer than they are along this walkway.

This is a public walkway. It has several bricks missing from the top. There's a big gap outside my house. The Council has been at least 12 times to measure it. There are no lights at all.

MP Brian Iddon had a safety tape put round it a while back, but this was ripped up after two days. Unless a child is injured or killed, it will stay like this. It's a dividing wall.

Most of us are pensioners in this block of six flats.

Mrs M Shaw,

Henshaw Walk, Halliwell.

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