I NOTICED that Lancashire County Council and Blackburn Council are to give £25,000 for teaching youngsters their "mother tongue" - Urdu, Punjabi, Gujerati, etc - in mosques.

The mother tongue in this country is English.

I hope the councillors are paying for this out of their own pockets from the ten-fold pay rise they awarded themselves.

This £25,000 should go on schools not to one group of people.

We also have a Polish and Hungarian people here who have never asked for such help and probably wouldn't get it if they did.

Treat everyone the same. Don't make one set different - because they're not.

MISS MILLIE WEIR, Denville Road, Blackburn.

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