IN your article about the newly-elected BNP councillors in Burnley (LET, June 5) one of them, Terry Grogan, refers to multi-culturalism as something that people don't want.

While this may be true of Burnley (although I doubt if that is the majority opinion), it is certainly not true of the rest of the country.

Whether Councillor Grogan and his colleagues like it or not, multi-culturalism is a fact in the UK and, in innumerable towns and cities, people of different races and cultures are learning to live together in harmony.

Of course, new skills aren't always easily learned and there will be occasional setbacks, but history has moved on.

There never was a time when all British citizens had a common racial and cultural heritage and that situation certainly won't happen in the future.

The government, along with the other major political parties, recognises and embraces that fact and, to finish on a topical note, so does the England football team!

PHIL RILEY (Secretary, Blackburn Labour Party), Pleckgate Road, Blackburn.