SIR - Forgive the perhaps naive questions regarding the BNP victory in Heckmondwike.

Mr Exley was asked what the needs of the Asian community were, to which he replied that he would represent everybody equally, be they members of the Asian community or English community.

Do people in Kirklees believe that the English community and the Asian community as mentioned by Mr Exley will always regard themselves as two separate races of people or will either community ever decide to get on with the other?

Surely it is time that people decided to regard themselves as residents and voters of one community regardless of their colour, creed, religion etc and ceased arrogantly regarding themselves as a race apart, each with their own little petty agendas and prejudices.

This is England. Isn't it time we all pulled together and made the country a cleaner, happier and more trusting environment for ourselves and future generations to live in, leaving behind the troublemakers who wish to cause unrest and misery in all our lives?

If this was to happen the BNP would be as extinct as the dodo.

J A Hargreaves, Cooper Lane, Bradford 6.

SIR - With regard to your report (T&A, August 14) regarding the closure of toilets - as usual, consultation has taken place without the public about this issue.

Toilets in some shape or form have been about since Roman times. Now we are in the 21st Century, has some way been found of disposing of our bodily waste when not in our own homes, without using public WCs?

As for having to spend £100,000 bringing toilets up to standard, cut councillors' huge allowances and spend money on public services.

It's about time the tail stopped wagging the dog.

Michael Breen, Bolton Hall Road, Wrose.

SIR - More pain and suffering is to be heaped upon the citizens of Bradford and district as our councillors look set to virtually call time on the provision of public toilets - a civilised and necessary service (T&A, August 14).

Now with a mere 21 loos left in the whole of the Metropolitan District, aren't we going to need satellite navigational systems to find them?

Doesn't this inconvenient policy suggest that the judges were quite right to boot the city out of the European culture club?

Culture in Bradford? There ain't none.

R J Lacey, Wrose Road, Bradford 2.

SIR - On behalf of the disabled people in our group, we would like to know why toilets are being closed when money is being spent on schemes that waste public money.

People will not come to Bradford because of this.

Cut councillors' allowances and keep public toilets. Closing them is a health hazard as people will do it somewhere else!

J R Smith (Retired Persons Action Group), Flawith Drive, Fagley.

SIR - Recent articles on the delayed flight from Menorca to Leeds Bradford Airport made a minor technical problem sound like a catastrophe in waiting and was yet another example of the sensationalist way in which routine aviation matters are reported.

That can only further damage airlines at a time when they are already assailed by many problems beyond their control.

In this case the fault was ultimately with a warning light which was giving a false reading, as opposed to any mechanical fault. However, this was not immediately apparent and the crew tried to rectify the problem using standard procedures.

Perhaps the captain could have communicated the nature of these procedures and the ability of the flight to operate in complete safety more clearly to the over-anxious passengers.

However, the fact remains that he decided to delay the flight until he was 100 per cent satisfied that the safety of his passengers was not being compromised. The travelling public should expect nothing else and aviation is the safest mode of transport for exactly this reason.

The sensationalist tone in which the story was reported across the media is hardly an incentive to pilots who may have to act similarly in the future.

Philip J Linley, Belmont Close, Baildon.

SIR - Re the front page story (T&A, August 16) headlined 'Ready to Roll.' The artist's impression left out the most important bit - the overhead rail link from each side of the city.

The many letters pushing this brilliant idea obviously have all wasted their time. The high-level rail tracks in Sydney and in New York, however ugly they may seem to artists, remain a very practical way to cross big cities.

Norman Littlewood, Huddersfield Rd, Wyke.