IT is usually your task to present "league tables" lists and the like showing Blackburn unenviably near the top. Such lists have included lower expectation of life, excessive drinking, heart disease, smoking and single parent families et., etc.

It ought to be a relief to find the town top of a league which it appears meets the approval of our leaders.

What a pity, therefore, that we have become the "gay marriage" capital of Lancashire.

Now if it was the normal wedding capital it might lower our position on the "single parent" list mentioned above.

KEITH REYNOLDS, Wyre Crescent, Darwen.