WHILE travelling from Blackburn town centre to Accrington on July 31, I was perusing a copy of that day's Lancashire Evening Telegraph.

A few rows in front of me some younger passengers, perhaps 18-20 year olds, were reading your letters section and commenting on the letter by Mrs S King.

I quickly turned to read this letter for myself and realised that the confusion for them lay in the fact that Mrs King referred to living in Blackburn while giving her home address as Rishton.

This to me would not have seemed like a contradiction as I, like most people in Great Harwood, regard myself as living in a part of Blackburn. I would be saddened to think that this a generation thing and that, in future, we would not be considered a part of Blackburn.

As Hyndburn Council leader Peter Britcliffe is keen to ask the people of the borough what they would like to be know as, could that extend to allowing the people of Great Harwood and Rishton to become part of Blackburn? That is where our identity lies.

Secondly, would not Blackburn's aim of becoming a city be much improved if its size were increased?

A city in this region would be good for all, as was argued by the area's MPs when Blackburn last made the bid.

MARTYN SMITH, St Hubert's Road, Great Harwood.