IT was stated (LET, August 11), that Rossendale Council was rapped for not having a leaflet on the new wheelie bins printed in Urdu or Bengali. For a start, not everyone in the Valley received a leaflet. But if leaflets were in fact printed, why should they be printed in a foreign language?

Once, this was an English-speaking, Christian country. Then came the influx of the millions of immigrants.

While we cannot do anything about what each successive government allows, we can protest about having to kowtow to such organisations as the so-called Equal Opportunities Committee. Equal for who? The English, or the immigrants?

If immigrants wish to settle in this country, it is in their interests to learn English. Would we be paid to learn Urdu or Bengali if we were to settle in their country?

Why anyone should wish to know about such controversial things as wheelie bins I'll never know. The distribution of the bins in Rossendale was, to say the least, disastrous. They are a scab on the landscape of a once beautiful valley.

G CLARKE, Fernhill Avenue, Stacksteads, Bacup.

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