SIR: Regarding your headlines on Wednesday, September 11, concerning the Pig Farm (Townley Farm).
This has been blown out of all proportion. Having worked at BDGH since 1950, I have never noticed smells, as the Trust claims, even travelling to work via the ginnel adjacent to the hospital and farm.
In this a devious move on behalf of the Trust to obtain more land, having already bought people's houses in Plodder Lane, in their badly designed plans?
What I suggest is that members of the Trust take a walk round the hospital grounds and through Andrews Estate at night, when the incinerator spewing the sickly smell is over-powering.
It's time the Trust got its priorities right and put their own house in order.
As your editorial states, if the Trust had suddenly become concerned why didn't they help the farmer. After all, the hospital has given the farmer swill for years. The public must keep their finger on the pulse in anything that the Trust does.
Miss M Casstles, Lucas Road, Farnworth.
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