AFTER checking the results of our local elections, it was with deep regret that I found we had not just lost a ward councillor, but one who, over many years, has given 100per cent of her time looking after the needs of the people she represented.
HAVE Telegraph readers done anything yet about the recent Royal Mail Sunday collection cuts that have affected millions of people across the United Kingdom?
I say to the world leaders, please go and help the people of Zimbabwe. The world cannot just sit and talk about helping when nothing is being done. We need serious action, before it's too late.
So bosses at the Environment Agency say that the area is vulnerable to flooding and warns us that flood prevention work is needed or millions of pounds' worth of damage may be caused. They want local authorities to stop building homes on flood plains.
It is a year ago this month since around 2.6million carers in the UK were given the right, under the Work and Families Act 2006, to request flexible working - this is designed to help carers stay in work.
A FRIEND of mine will be 60 next year and was telling me today that she was in a Schools Educational Services film called First Things First, published by MCC.
REGARDING the article relating to the alleged proposals to construct a sports stadium along with shops and a hotel on land at Darwen's Robin Bank site (LT April 24), earlier reports in The Darrener newspaper were headlined "Stadium Sensation" along with the controversial photograph on the front page of a 30,000-seater American stadium.
Speaking at their annual conference, Clarissa Williams, President of the National Association of Head Teachers said punitive steps like fining parents for truanting do not often work and says a more creative approach is needed.
AS one of the ratepayers who pays council salaries, I must object to Blackburn with Darwen Coun Colin Rigby saying public discussion of salaries is not good.
THE recent announcement by the Government which will allow local councils to charge quite extortionate amounts to collect our refuse, will only serve as yet another nail in the coffin of an incompetent Government headed by an even more incompetent Prime Minister.
I AGREE wholeheartedly with Mr T Jones (LT, April 30). Having lived in Blackburn all my life, the last 12 years on Shadsworth Estate, I have seen a vast decline in the upkeep of housing and general cleanliness of this estate, even more so since Twin Valley Estates took over.
IT greatly saddens me that Blackburn with Darwen Citizens Advice Bureau is being threatened with closure due to the reduction of funding by the local council by 50 per cent (LT, April 26).
THERE has been a lot of publicity about schoolteachers striking, but does anyone realise that higher education and college lecturers have also been on strike?
ONCE again the Bishop of Blackburn gets on his soapbox to insult voters by insinuating they haven't the intelligence to know who or who not to vote for in the forthcoming elections (LT, April 25).
LOCAL election time. Canvassing? Oh yes, I received a colour leaflet from the Labour candidate, an obviously self produced 1/3 A4 leaflet from the Tory candidate, which still had the guillotine shards on it, and from the Liberal Democrat candidate? I am still waiting.
