GREAT NIGHT RAISED £846

THANKS for the mention in Friday’s Observer (‘Get Rocking’, September 23).

We had a fantastic rock n roll night with Ricky Aron and CJ Stewart at the Pop club and raised £846 for the East Lancs Hospice. Eddie Pearson via email

PUT OAK TREES IN SQUARE

HELLO, I bought the Accrington Observer on Saturday when we visited my sister who lives in Accrington. It is a good read - sad that some local libraries will be “mothballed”.

I hope this is just a temporary measure since libraries are a free service and a wealth of information.

I like the artist’s impression of how the new town square would look.

The town hall, market hall are grand buildings with fine architecture - just look at the carved mouldings.

I would want some trees there though - OAK trees since “Accrington” stems from “acc” - acorn; “ring” - circle; “ton” - township. i.e. the town of the ring of oak trees. Nothing else would do. Accrington has many references to oak trees (Oak Hill Park for instance) and an oak leaf means courage.

I would suggest at least 12 - six on each side of the road. Grand. As I was born and bred in Accrington, I have happy memories of pals - many still living. A good bookshop like Waterstones would help Accrington prosper and then the libraries could be revived. Marian Bythell Address supplied via email

WHERE WILL HE GET MONEY?

SO Jeremy Corbyn is going to make the national living wage £10 from its current £7.20 for people over twenty five if he is elected Prime Minister in 2020.

This may sound all well and good for those people on it. How will he achieve this by paying it from the £500 billion he is talking about borrowing or by making employers find it?

If the employers in Hyndburn have to find it one or two things may possible happen.

Small businesses may have to make staff redundant to find the increase for other employees.

Or they will have to increase the prices of their products or items depending on the kind of business they run.

If restaurants and cafes increase their prices to cover this extra increase in their wages bill a few things may occur.

The customers who frequent these establishments at the present time, pensioners and the like may stop going or reduce the numbers of times they frequent them.

Either of these two possibilities may impact not only on these businesses but the Hyndburn area as a whole. I think we all agree that anybody who works should have to have a decent standard of living with a fare wage. But can the small businesses here in a community that is struggling to make ends meet afford such an increase in the national living wage?

Or is it just a promise from a leader who doesn’t understand the economics of the world today?

Socialists just like Christians want a better world for everybody but is this the way to get it? A P Moxham Mill Lane Great Harwood