REGARDING Mrs Christina Dickinson being told by Blackburn Council she would have to wait six weeks to get her window repaired (Letters, July 30), I wonder why this was.

Would the cost of the glass be lower in six weeks perhaps? Would the glazier be back off sick leave? Could it have been because of a novice who takes six weeks to cut the glass?

Or, more like it, it was a punishment for getting burgled in the first place.

My daughter experienced the same carry on - weeks with a door and window boarded up which were replaced three days before MP Jack Straw was due across the road.

No wonder Blackburn Council came bottom of the pile in a national paper's survey. It seems they still have not got the message.

SAM SPENCE, Ribblesdale Place, Blackburn.

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