[Gayle]

Less than a third of the population of Hyndburn read the Observer, even less read the Telegraph. So most people in the town know nothing about these issues.

Bizarrely, even for a local election most people vote based on national issues (honestly!). One of the reasons that Labour in Hyndburn did so badly last May was because of all the stuff about the war in the press and the Prescott saga at the time.