I REFER to your article about the problems being experienced by fellow citizens in Hall i'th' Wood, and in particular the comments of Sgt Leon Jacobs about the need to establish an active residents association to work with the authorities.

As a newspaper, you are now providing a vital service to Bolton in so far as you act on many occasions as the feedback link to those residents who diligently work with the authorities and can often become dispirited at an apparent lack of response.

What better example than the recent coverage of the drug raids in the Great Lever area?

I am sure that people in Great Lever must have thought many times: When is something going to happen?

The establishment of an effective residents organisation in Hall i'th' Wood rests firmly on the shoulders of the councillors in the area. They have to rise above the cracked pavement and pothole in the road mentality and begin to take a lead in giving the people a decent place in which to live.

Yes, it will be hard work, but as the confidence of the wider community is developed, the results will be well worth it.

It is time to get fingers out.

Walter Scott

Bromwich Street

Bolton