AS a parent associated with the Burnley Scout and Guide Band for a number of years, I feel that your lead story about 'outrage' over them playing a pop tune at Clitheroe's Remembrance Day parade (LET, November 11) was very unfair to members of the band.

As this was the third time the band had been invited to play at Clitheroe, everyone should have been aware of the type of music they play.

If the members of the British Legion were not happy with how things went, surely, someone should have approached the band, not the Lancashire Evening Telegraph.

E COLLINS, Lockyer Avenue, Burnley.

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