[torquemada]

The Accrington web has to be the way to get your point of view over to the people of Hyndburn, be it right or wrong, because using the letters page in the Accrington Observer has now become a waste of time with only three or four letters printed each week, even though they get a mail bag of at least twenty letters a week. If you send a letter with a constructive criticism of the previous council leader they will not print it. I know of at least five labour supporters who have written letters and none of them have been printed. The last council leader sent before the 9th March the names of Councillor Allah Dad to Buckingham, Palace to represent Hyndburn at the garden party as the next mayor of Hyndburn when he should not have named the mayor because he didn't know at that time who it would be. He presumed that the conservatives would still be in control of the council, they lost it and therefore Councillor Dad will not be the mayor that honour now goes to Labour Councillor Colette McCormack. Should Councillor Peter Britcliffe not have just said that the mayor would be attending, not naming the person. Or was this a cynical ploy by a sad and vindictive person. I sent a letter asking this to the Accrington Observer two weeks ago yet it wasn't printed. I leave the readers of the Accrington web to draw their own conclusions.