SIR - Gordon Gibb the Bradford City FC chairman has called for action from businesses in the area with a view to helping the club in what is a difficult period.

Surely the more successful businesses who have a base camp in Bradford and who trade extensively with the local population as well as on a national basis can see the commercial advantages in now supporting the club.

Morrisons (who hopefully will soon make a major acquisition) or abbey (who have just rebranded) spring to mind.

It is both a shame and a pity that this kind of support has not previously been forthcoming.

Now is the time for action.

Mark Edwards, Bowling Green Lane, London.

SIR - Now that wheelie bins have completely taken over Saltaire Village, the Council wants to introduce another one, this time for certain types of waste paper.

I can just see tour operators around the country coming to visit Saltaire, "The Historic World Heritage Village of Wheelie Bins" - not a pleasant sight.

John Loftus, Albert Road, Saltaire.

SIR - Yet another grandiose scheme is proposed for Bradford. What are our head-in-the-clouds councillors going to come up with next?

It would be interesting to know what the cost of this concept will be to the council tax payers and what has been the cost in payments to the designers to date.

It seems to me that these same councillors who declared that there was no money in the kitty to keep the old people's homes open have a twisted sense of priorities. By all means flood the city centre, but first dam up all the major routes out and choose a day when these hare-brained people are in session in the city hall.

In my teens I thought that Bradford was great, now I believe it is a dump and schemes like this will not make a jot of difference.

Dennis Scanlon, West View Avenue, Wrose.

SIR - What are we coming to when a person has to give up his job because of an anonymous allegation that he enjoys something most people do not understand?

Councillor Andrew Smith is no longer chairman of the Council's regulatory and appeals panel pending an investigation, which he called for himself, into the allegation that he belonged to a "swingers" club.

If the allegation is true, he is not hurting anyone by being involved with consenting adults and has done nothing illegal. Cannot people who have boring lives leave others alone?

If this was France, such stories would mean Coun Smith would be president at the next election! We are now Europeans, so let's loosen up like the French, Dutch and Germans.

We are living in the 21st century, not Victorian England.

Gary Ingham, Carr House Gate, Wyke.

SIR - So an anonymous source has alleged that Councillor Andrew Smith is a swinger (T&A, October 18). So what? What he and his partner do behind closed doors with other consenting adults is their business.

I myself couldn't do it but why should I condemn those who do when they are not hurting anyone else? As long as he is not using council money or property to indulge in his alleged sexual pleasures then who am I to condemn him?

Some readers might condemn me as a "bleeding heart liberal" for expressing this point of view but I am not. Be sensible, there are far more important things to worry about in our city.

Richard Fox, Garsdale Avenue, Bradford 10.