Well done, Cllrs Peter Doyle and Gordon Birtwistle. Essential services are retained without robbing hard-working families of more of their hard-earned cash.

The Conservatives of Brunshaw would evidently prefer a Lib Dem councillor to someone from the ranks of the BNP representing them.

On the contrary, we haven't felt this good since 1992. We are on the eve of a dynamic new Conservative government and we've helped to oust the Labour Party from the local town hall.

The future's bright. The future's Tory.

“This whole sorry episode has brought shame upon the community, It is time to move on and elect a new Councillor for the area”.

Great.

So why is she standing in BRUNSHAW??

Kitty Ussher: I was very taken when I visited a pharmacist in my
constituency recently -Coopers chemist on Abel street in Burnley- by
quite how much work it does in the field of public health, such as in
methadone administration and smoking cessation. Is that a model that my
hon. Friend the Minister hopes to build on?

6/7/07

At the school Christmas concert a band was made to take out the name Jesus from their title because it might have offended other faiths. It did not matter that youngsters from other faiths were joining in anyway and having fun together with non-Christians and Christians alike. Never mind the fact they were celebrating a time of the birth of Jesus. Who ended up being resentful?
JANE KILLIN, Hollingreave Road, Burnley

Miss Gill Broom replies:
Before the Christmas concert I asked for the reference to Jesus in the band's name to be removed from the programme so as not to offend followers of any faith or any member of the audience.

Gill Broom is an intelligent woman, though I really must agree with Ms Killen. I know of no Muslims who would be offended at the mention of Jesus- He is afterall, their second-most important prophet.

People of other religions are not seeking to be sanitised against Christianity. We patronise them by thinking they take offence over such trifles.

This is a Christian country and we should be proud of our heritage, not ashamed of it.

15 MINS LATER

Having just viewed the said band 'Jesus and the Dinosaurs' on YouTube, I cannot help but think that if anyone would take offence, it would be Christians themselves. But then that never enters anyone's thoughts, does it?

He writes

When voters in the north east were asked in a referendum if they wanted a unitary authority, they resoundingly rejected the proposal but the people of Burnley and Pendle may wake up one morning to find themselves part of a new town with a new name and no idea how it happened.

-Burnley Express, letters

No, John. The people of the Northeast were asked to vote on a regional assembly, not a unitary authority, the two are really not the same.

Stop trying to scare people and tell them that the new unitary authority will more likely resemble Blackburn with Darwen, or Bolton.

Of course, this does not mean that it is any more a good idea, but it's important that we know what we are talking about.

Time for action, not more words

As a resident of Burnley Wood, I along with many others, have been waiting since last July for the Elevate plan for our area to be released. This plan was due out last November, it was then delayed until early 2007.
On Friday, February 2nd, I and everyone else in our area, received a letter. In this letter was a questionnaire, the latest in a long line of questionnaires which we have filled in over the last few years, each asking more or less the same questions. These will form the basis of yet another report due out in March.
The residents of Burnley Wood are getting sick to death of filling in questionnaires and forms. We want action not more form filling, we have already waited far too long for redevelopment/remodelling to start. For the sake of all the residents of the area pull your finger out and start the work before it is too late to save the area from being completely flattened.

D.J. TIERNEY, Parkinson Street, Burnley

www.burnleytoday.co.uk

Well, here's a great example in today's issue.

It begins with:

'I write to congratulate and thank all those who played a part in the recent decision to keep Padiham recycling centre open...'

OK. Great.

After several paragraphs of thanks and appreciation, he comes to the real point of his letter:

'On a more depressing note the projects put in place and ongoing for Padiham when Labour left office last May seem to be stumbling one by one under the Liberal/Tory executive...'

If Mr Tatchell wishes to make political points to try and resurrect his party's miserable image, then he ought to deliver a leaflet like everyone else. Save the letters page for genuine correspondence.

On 24th January 07, they proposed a borough-wide REFERENDUM on the issue.

Won't that cost a lot of money too?

Our thoughts extend to his friends and family.