SINCE I left Blackburn in the early Sixties for voluntary exile in the USA, Switzerland and, for the past four years, Barbados, it's been a real struggle to get news about goings-on in East Lancashire, especially about Blackburn Rovers, who I supported before Jack Walker was a lad.
The Premier League and satellite TV solved the Rovers problem, enabling us on a recent Saturday, over a tropical breakfast of mangoes, grilled fish and rum punch, to watch the Rovers vs Manchester United live from Ewood Park, instead of standing at the Darwen end.
Now the Internet has filled the East Lancashire news gap. Every afternoon, at around 5pm local time - as I last did when Ronnie Clayton captained England - I read my Evening Telegraph. And thoroughly enjoy clicking through your pages.
DAVID MARSDEN, Barbados.
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