LIB-Dem leader Councillor Paul Browne says his concern about the new "anti-rumour" department costing £60,000 that Blackburn with Darwen Council is setting up is that this is a backdoor way of using taxpayers' money to fund Labour propaganda LET, February 28).

I wonder what he calls the council's newspaper, The Shuttle. The Third Reich would have been proud of it.

Does Coun Browne not think that taxpayers monies are not used to publish it?

ROY DAVIES, Olive Lane, Darwen.