WITH reference to the articles in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph regarding John Hacking, I would like to add my support to him.

Mr Hacking was an excellent deputy head and I say this because I used to work with him. I started work at Lammack School at the same time as Miss Holly Vickers.

Mr Hacking at no time while I was working there called anyone anything maliciously and I believe he certainly would have ceased if he had thought he was harming anyone.

I left Lammack a long time before the complaints were made.

LESLEY BROWN, Tower Road, Darwen.