CHANGE at work always brings with it trepidation and anxiety.

We all have a tendency to prefer the status quo. We worry about how change will affect our lives at work, and how it will impinge on our life outside of work.

Will changes mean that life at work becomes so stressful that life outside of work is just a place of recovery?

When your place of work is a place of public service, those anxieties are not only for yourself, but for the people you serve.

And that explains the fears of firefighters across Greater Manchester in the light of cuts proposed by mayor, Andy Burnham.

Bolton firefighters voiced their fears to us in an exclsuive interview this week.

They wanted to share their concerns that the cuts proposed are simply not sustainable.

They believe that closing two fire stations and replacing them with one, and cutting the numbers of firefighters who staff the engines, can not be justified in the name of modernisation.

MP David Crausby agrees with them and has made his opinions very clear in our pages.

Readers must make up their own minds. But if they share the fears for the future voiced by firefighters in Bolton, they must make heir own feelings known.

They can do that by writing to Mr Crausby and also, why not write to Mr Burnham?

We are sure he will be very glad to offer his reassurances to readers of The Bolton News.