WHAT kind of people are sitting on Blackburn Council - who are supposed to support Labour? Who are these councillors who throw old people out of homes for the elderly - Laneside and Shadsworth House?

Next, it is disabled children who are targeted in proposals to close down special schools - Blackamoor and Dame Evelyn Fox.

What is Blackburn Council doing? Saving money? I don't think so.

When does 'money' come before care for the old and disabled children in our society?

I hope these councillors can look in a mirror in the morning. I just hope the people of Blackburn remember what these Labour councillors are doing to our old people and disabled children.

JOHN WALSH (Labour Party member), Henry Whalley Street, Blackburn.

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