A PETITION calling for fairer TV licences and bearing the signatures of 3,500 people from all over East Lancashire will be handed to MPs at the Commons on July 7.

One of the founders of Rossendale-based CROPS, the Campaign for the Restoration of Older People's, Susan Troughton, and her husband, Jim, will hand in the petition.

Susan, of Goodshaw Avenue, Loveclough, said: "I would like to thank readers of the Lancashire Evening Telegraph for getting behind this campaign.

"People kept ringing from Blackburn, Accrington, Burnley and Oswaldtwistle anxious to help.

"We will present the petition to Rossendale and Darwen MP Janet Anderson and, hopefully, Hyndburn's Greg Pope and Burnley's Peter Pike will be there.

"It is not fair that there is such a disparity in the amount older people have to pay for a TV licence. Some in sheltered accommodation pay just £5."

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