If found to be reasonably curable, then an order could be made to compel United
Utilities to tackle the problems at the sewage works in Jameson Road.
I remember living in an old house often blighted with an unmistakable odour, due to what was eventually diagnosed, by using smoke-injected experiments, as coming from badly broken drains.
All in all, getting rid of such problems may not be too simple, even on a scale of a big works.
Council officials told me they did not
bother too much about sewer gas in the open air near to a house.
Those of us who might fear a health
hazard from broken drains could at least find some comfort as far as smell was concerned in what I read about a survey many years ago – that the constituents of sewer gas are very similar to those of fresh air!
K. Mackay
Lytham

* Can Coun Mark Hamer please give the full facts when he tells us Fleetwood has a
problem with the stench from the sewage works in the town.
What he fails to tell readers in his letter is that it was the Conservative-controlled Wyre Council who approved its location.
For years Wyre Council failed to take any action against United Utilities. Coun Hamer said nothing and did even less to prevent its
construction.
Coun Hamer is now throwing up a
smokescreen to detract attention from his
party's plans to ruin the Promenade at
Fleetwood.
Your love of Fleetwood Coun Hamer is skin deep. When your Tory bosses click their
fingers you will dance to their tune, the
people of Fleetwood will be ignored.
John Traynor
Cleveleys

Are cameras telling the truth?
The police should come clean over speed cameras. The public need to be able to trust them.
When we get a parking ticket we know that it is the parking wardens and not the police who have issued the penalty.
Speeding fines are still
associated with the police.
In many cases the mobile cameras are operated by civilians, trying to get the most bookings.
A recent report in a
national newspaper showed one Lancashire civilian technician
without checking his equipment and falsely signing papers to say it was correct had issued hundreds of tickets.
They had to overturn 545 convictions, 1,500 penalty points and refund £35,585 in fines.
This would have been a mobile unit. But how often are static units checked? We have wagons of 44 tonnes on our roads which shake the foundations of houses.
What do they do to the cameras?
People are losing trust in the police. Why can't they do something to help
restore that trust?
Terry Bennett
Dinmore Avenue

Foul problems
I am sick of dog fouling outside my home and along Park Road.
I have just had to swill the dog mess off the step of my gate.
I have been in touch with the council several times and two dog
wardens came out, put a sign on the lamp post outside but this has not deterred the selfish
owners who allow this disgusting practice.
It is an obvious health hazard when you walk it in to your home.
Perhaps ignorant
people might start to pick up their dog mess and maybe the council will do their job properly and start patrolling the streets and fine these selfish people.
Christine Bowling
Park Road
Blackpool

Nobody took responsibility
During a so-called organised fight between two schools, boys who were being chased, ploughed through a panel of a fence smashing it to pieces.
On Pearl Avenue, in Bromley Court, a large rose tree was badly damaged, again by boys with no respect for people's
private property.
Two boys were caught
climbing over a locked seven foot gate once again trespassing.
Who will take responsibility for the damage done in this sick
society?
Probably no-one because the words blame and discipline are no longer a part of the English
language.
Name and address supplied

No take up for scanner places
My husband attended Victoria Hospital on a Saturday for an MRI scan. While we were waiting a cancellation came through.
The receptionist must have
telephoned at least 10 people to ask them to accept the spot.
Not one would accept until it came to the very last person.
We hear so many adverse
comments about the waiting lists on the NHS but when offered the
opportunity people seem to use any excuse not to accept a slot.
Josephine Stebbing
Carr Head Lane
Poulton

Bollards not flood answer
DRIVING along Blackpool
Promenade on Sunday after the previous night's downpour I
noticed the council has come up with a solution to the problem of flooding and blocked drains.
I noticed somebody had gone and marked any flooded drains with bollards and cones.
Unfortunately there appeared to have been many more blocked drains than they had bollards.
What good will bollards be when we are waist deep in water?
G Smyth
Flaxfield Way
Kirkham