IF your paper is now going to have regular reports on private meetings of the Labour group on Burnley Council, I think they should be reported accurately.

I am proud to say there was dissent about Councillor Eddie Fisk becoming mayor - from myself and Coun Alice Thornber. And it should also be noted that it was a poorly attended meeting.

Coun Fisk may be 'delighted' (LET, June 19), but he should remember that the same group of people only a few months ago decided that he was not a fit and proper person to be chairman of a housing committee and that was a unanimous decision of the Labour group with only two abstentions.

That proud distinction will forever be recorded in the history of Burnley Council.

The mayorality is not normally brought into politics, but as your reporter points out, Coun Fisk brought the mayorality into his election campaign claiming the Labour Party were trying to prevent him becoming mayor.

We do not have elected mayors in this country - yet. And we certainly do not want self-elected mayors.

COUNCILLOR TONY HARRISON, Burnley Road, Cliviger, Burnley.

Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.