Letters - January 15, 2016

By The Newsroom
Published 15th Jan 2016, 13:28 BST
Updated 15th Jan 2016, 13:34 BST
Trustees and volunteers from the Fleetwood Museum are battling to keep it safe from closureTrustees and volunteers from the Fleetwood Museum are battling to keep it safe from closure
Trustees and volunteers from the Fleetwood Museum are battling to keep it safe from closure
CULTUREClosure would be like losing family silver I write on behalf of the 250 members of Fylde Decorative and Fine Art Society, an affiliated Society of the National DFAS, to express our concern at the possible closure of museums across Lancashire, in particular the Fleetwood Town Museum.

While we recognise the financial pressure exerted on local authorities at the present time, we are dismayed at the prospect of closing museums, with the possible loss of local and national treasures which may never be replaced. Even in the hardest of financial climates, museums, galleries and similar cultural pursuits must continue to offer educational and leisure facilities for all.

Art and culture is for everyone. To remove large parts of it would be to lose our history and “the family silver”, and lose opportunities for young people to learn and understand the story of Lancashire and to encourage them to continue it for the future.

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Surely the many volunteers within Lancashire arts and cultural organisations can get together with the local authorities to work out a way forward to save these great institutions, before they are lost forever ?

Jo Darbyshire

Chair

Fylde Decorative and Fine Art Society

ENERGY

Benefits of fracking are nothing personal

I am more than happy to debate the pros and cons of fracking through this newspaper.

However I am not prepared to have Kate Styles suggest that I have or would benefit personally if fracking was to go ahead (Your Say, Gazette, January 2).

I would therefore be very grateful, as I am sure would your readers, to know exactly how, when and where such benefit has or will come?

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If she is unable to provide such information then I assume she will issue the appropriate apology.

David Haythornthwaite

via email

HOSPITALS

Health chiefs should go elsewhere to cut

Oh no, not more hospital closures (Gazette, January 14)We were campaigning to get Wesham re-opened.

If the health authority or the NHS trust quangos want to save money, they should get rid of the chief executive – that will save about a million a year .

John Aspinall