WHAT a good article about the new Fusilier Museum and how well the Lutyens memorial looks in its new position.

But, hang on, in the words of North West Development Agency chief, Steven Broomhead, “the relocation will strengthen the town’s appeal to visitors”.

However it’s not all about the town centre. What about the townspeople of Bury, those who pay the rates and see their once beloved market town turning into a concrete jungle and anything outside of the town centre being run down or closed?

No fancy flower baskets along the road for us, weeds not removed from paving as in previous years, hedgerows not cut back in places. In fact the once glorious flower beds that used to surround the original site of the Lutyens memorial now has a concrete circle and rundown flower beds full of weeds. Is this what we are left with?

I for one cannot understand Bury Council at all: extortionate car parking rates compared with Bolton and Rochdale, insufficient parking space at the Interchange, a “medium secure” hospital built next to a cycle path, and Elton reservoir which families use for leisure purposes and where the height of the fence suggests this is to keep people in not keep unwanted visitors out.

And then there’s the new NHS buildings sprouting up all over Bury, while Humphrey House in Angouleme Way and next to Peel Health Centre remains empty. Why?

Mrs P Davis Henley Close Bury