A SENSE of dj vu possessed me when I read the letter in our pages from 16-year-old student, evidently enjoying her role as 'deputy member of the UK Youth Parliament for Blackburn with Darwen,' as she thanked the council for allowing her and her friends to attend a 'Study Experience' in France.

For I was sure I had read something like this somewhere before.

And so I had - on May 31, when the sender Miss Rahima Patel, employed virtually identical words, to thank the council for helping her and her friends to attend a science study at Disneyland, Paris, earlier in the year.

How jolly that she and her friends should benefit from two educational trips, both of which entailed visits to French theme parks, in the same year.

Does this Youth Parliament have a register of members' interests like the real one?

If so, we might learn what it costs taxpayers, for whom one foreign jaunt a year, let alone two, would be a luxury, to broaden the horizons of its delegates.