VERY soon spring will be in the air, dark nights and bad weather will be a memory until the next time. It is a natural process of nature and life. 
However, after attending a charity event in Old Town I walked past the alleyway adjacent to the Old Corn Exchange, better known as the Locarno. 
I suspect Swindon Council can even defy the natural law of change.
  The depressing derelict visual site of one of Swindon’s great historical sites from the past shocked me. 
How long has it been, in all honesty, in my opinion, in dangerous decay? 
In the meantime the council can build a car park.
In the words of Joni Mitchell in the famous song: "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot." 
But they pull parking lots down in the town centre and repeat their misdemeanours by building another unviable financial monstrosity.
Yet they neglect for years, Swindon’s great heritage from the past, which is part of our town’s history and a tribute to the architectural skills of past generations. 
These generations left their monuments in stone, so that we should respect and remember them.
BILL WILLIAMS 
Merlin Way
Covingham, Swindon