FIRST we hear of obscene e-mails within the office, then we learn of the sacking of staff at Queen's Park High School, Blackburn, and costs of £800,000 and now £250,000 on the unfair sacking of deputy head Mr J Hacking.

That is £250,000 and nothing to show for it! What a pity that the headteacher and governors of Lammack School and the LEA did not use such a vast sum for some project that would have benefited the children and brought credit to the town instead of exactly the opposite, by conducting what Mr Hacking calls a "witch hunt" against him.

Perhaps someone on behalf of us taxpayers should begin a similar witch hunt to find out why it was able to happen in the first place.

MR G HUNTER, Earnsdale Avenue, Darwen.