Mr McVee seems quite happy to pay an extra 17 per cent council tax. Whereas I and, I suspect, the vast majority of the council taxpayers in the borough are very unhappy about the huge rise.

DAVID PEARSON Vice-Chairman, Blackburn Conservatives, Rawstorne Street, Blackburn.

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