I was most intrigued by the recent schools consultation brochure which went out with the St Helens First magazine.

If we were ever to obtain buildings like the marvellous examples in the photographs accompanying this document, St Helens students would be truly well blessed.

Yet I think whoever is responsible for producing this brochure is flying a little high as the photos used show the highly acclaimed campus of Nottingham University.

One of the illustrations portrays a group of young children on the site. But the point is surely that they must have been on the campus for a visit and this was not their natural school environment. Is this not then a misleading image to use?

It would indeed be a blessing to house our students in such surroundings. Sadly the current picture is that many have to cope with spending their school lives in often cramped post-war design hutches or the glorified site huts which make up so many 'temporary' classrooms these days.

Still we have got new pavements to plod across the George Street 'Cultural Quarter' on our way to St Helens Central to sample the benefits of our wonderful transport system', so somebody is making an effort to liven up our humdrum lives.

Puzzled reader (name and address supplied)