In my letter to the Bury Times, dated September 21, I made an offer to Mark Sanders to suggest ways to cut out council expenses - the point of my offer being to save our Lowry.

This offer wasn't taken up so I am now going public.

The following may seem insignificant but over a year they would probably amount to at least the £500,000 Bury Council need: 1) Keep the temperature in council buildings at a healthy 65f and keep the outside doors closed. This is particularly the case in sport centres where people are exercising. The temperature in the gym, exercise rooms and squash courts should be kept well below 65f. Shower temperatures should also be reduced. The showers in the Castle Leisure are hot almost to the point of scalding.

In the sport centre, young adults are employed to look after young children during the school holidays, but overweight children seem to spend an inordinate amount of time sitting in a squash court watching TV.

2) A sure sign of an election is the frenzy of road repairs. Enormous motorway size wagons have taken load upon load of gravel to Goshen Sports Centre to resurface the car park. And, although the gate doesn't open until 9-10am, the lorries arrive at 6am and sit there - some with their engines still running. This lack of planning must cost a lot of money. The lorries most probably belong to a private firm but I bet we are paying in the end. I question not so much the re-surfacing, as the depth on the car park.

3) Others have mentioned the chips on the blue bins which cost some £40,000.

4) Cut funding to the TPU - or whatever it is called now - and other organisations who run training courses' which people don't need and won't attend without being paid.

5) How much is the beautification of Bury costing? Councillor Byrne is congratulating himself on winning an award while many of us are wondering how much it has cost to hang flower displays from every post. One Lowry is more beautiful than 1,000 flower baskets.

6) Cut the number of council vehicles by using vehicle pools.

The above six points may seem insignificant but, taken together, they must add up to far more than what the Lowry will bring.

I was able to save my company 500,000 per annum by attention to such insignificant details.

Bill Brison, Bury