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.
I RECEIVED a letter from Transdev buses dated April 8. It said reasons for with-drawing the Greenhead Avenue bus stop were, parking issues on Greenhead Avenue, Blackburn.
I AGREE with people who are requesting a memorial for Tommy Ball. What better place than in the new market as it was on the old open market that it all started for him.
THE huge rise in scrap metal prices has led to a major increase in the number of unlicensed operators and the flouting of environmental laws on the disposal of old cars across the UK.
WHITLEY Local History Group would like to contact relatives of Sapper William Gibson, Royal Engineers, who died in a bomb explosion on Whitley Common, on the outskirts of Coventry on October 18, 1940.
AFTER reading the article regarding breastfeeding, in (LT, April 21), I agree that mothers should be fully supported with breastfeeding in public and that there are benefits for the baby health-wise.
I WISH to express my astonishment at the following facts:
Blackburn with Darwen is going to tear up contracts of employment belonging to my relative along with many of his colleagues.
MY name is Kathleen Mary Sutcliffe. I have been living abroad for 20 years and I am back in the UK now and desperately trying to find my brothers, James Sutcliffe and John Pickup.
I KNOW the decision has already been made to call it Wainwright Bridge but my 11-year-old daughter has come up with a name for the new bridge being built on Freckleton Street, Blackburn.
I WOULD like to draw attention to the plight of the elderly and disabled (of which there are quite a few) passengers of the Wensley Fold and Witton buses in Blackburn.
SOMEONE once said that politics is a rough old trade. Especially in the run-up to election time all parties attack the policies and records of opponents.
CAN I express my disgust at the decision of the ruling group of BwD Council to raise the fees of leisure services and in particular the cost of a swim at Waves.
SMOKING has been in the news again. The Department of Health is considering consultation later this spring to examine ways of discouraging children from smoking.
I FULLY understand the frustration of Chris Eggleston who wrote concerning Councillor Sidat but the situation is not easily dealt with. The councillor was a Liberal and a member of the coalition but, due to his long absences is now, I believe, an Independent.
