[WillowTheWhisp]

And that perfectly illustrates the point that we are talking about two entirely different issues.

The proposed name change need not go ahead in order for the individual towns to have their own councils. For the people who want individual town councils I cannot understand why such independent spirit would settle for being known nationally as an "and district" of Accrington. At present Accrington has its own identity within Hyndburn just as all the other towns do but if the name change goes ahead then all the other towns will be regarded nationally as merely parts of Accrington in much the way that Springhill and Fern Gore are now. Do you really want that? Do you want to lose your identity?

I can't help feeling that by lumping the two issues together it is made to look like this is giving the other towns more of an individual identity when in fact it is doing precisely the opposite.