IN response to the reader comments last week that suggests St Helens Council is not to blame for the state of the town centre.


Well who is?


For the proliferation of pound shops alongside dingy bars? 


For the early morning and late night drinking?


For the idiots on bikes riding on the pavements and the foul-mouthed youths in one of the few seating areas in town?


For the lack of facilities for young and old? 


I accept the empty shops may be down to changes in the way we shop but it doesn’t seem to have harmed Wigan and Warrington does it? 


Good grief we haven’t even got a W H Smiths any more.


Dave O’Brien, St Helens