SIR: I read with interest that local police are being equipped with speed cameras. May I point out an anomaly at present with the use of speed traps on Long Lane. Warning signs of their use are posted and woe betide any motorist caught speeding.

Yet yards away in Leverhulme Park, with the apparent blessing of the council, manic morons on motor cycles are allowed to tear round at 60 mph with total disregard for the users of the park or its fabric.

One or the other is wrong.

H Hennessey

Winchester Way, Bolton

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