YOUR report (LET, January 4) about accommodation for visitors to Blackburn was incorrect and whoever wrote the leader column obviously doesn't read your newspaper.

The reference to how Dusseldorf in Germany deals with any overspill of visitors by having a database of residents who let out their spare rooms was distorted to suggest that Blackburn should use this model instead of trying to attract a quality hotel to the town. I fully endorse the efforts to secure such a hotel.

For your information, meetings of the council's overview and scrutiny committees often become brainstorming exercises which draw on the worldly experiences of councillors.

To trivialise the rooms-for-rent initiative which I suggested and use it out of context is not good reporting.

Furthermore, this type of reporting, linked to a lack of reporting the opposition views, clearly lays the responsibility in your lap.

Opposition comments may get a 'one-liner' but are never followed up. Take, for example, the disaster which is the Orbital Route, whereby Church Street in Blackburn town centre was closed before we get a suitable alternative.

This is something we will never now have by virtue of Blackburn College being allowed to build on a plot of land that had been reserved for years for the eventual Inner Relief Road. Even the Labour group on the council recognised the failing and did something about it.

Why do you ignore minority reports from scrutiny meetings -- such as the wasteful use of the entire 'Home Zone' funding in one of the Labour wards -- one which has benefited from massive regeneration funding in the not-too-distant past?

COUN ALAN COTTAM (Conservative spokesman for regeneraton), Blackburn with Darwen Council.