MRS Mary Grundy's comments about the cost of asylum seekers coming to Blackburn and Darwen (Letters, April 13) may or may not be valid, but that is not the reason I am writing.

Blackburn with Darwen has many critics, but I find it strange that someone outside the borough talks about "paid for by whom?"

It certainly won't be Mrs Grundy, who, I presume from her address, pays her council dues to Ribble Valley Council.

ANDREW LAIN, Columbia Way, Blackburn.