SIR - On Sunday, March 2, my wife and I were in our car waiting in the queue at 10.20am on the A650 (going towards Keighley) at the bottom of Cemetery Road, Bingley.

An ambulance, followed by a paramedic car, was attempting to come through the traffic towards Shipley. In front of them a private car was waiting to turn up Cemetery Road but could not do so because another car which had been parked at the bottom of Cemetery Road was attempting to do a U-turn towards Shipley, and at the same time a car was coming down Cemetery Road (wrong way in a one-way road).

All this was caused by the parking of cars of people going to the so-called "car boot sale" at Bingley Auction Market. Had the ambulance needed to turn up Cemetery Road it would have been impossible.

If it is necessary to have a car boot sale starting at 6.30am every Sunday, let it be held in the centre of Bradford where there is little traffic and no residential housing instead of allowing it to be held at the side of one of the busiest roads in Bradford.

F L Crowther, Bailey Hills Road, Bingley.

SIR - This is a very bad time of year for us at Rivendell Equine Defence due to the bad weather, plus we haven't caught up from the aftermath of the foot and mouth epidemic.

Our task of raising money through shows proved disastrous last year due to an abundance of rain. While we are hopeful of some good shows this year to enlarge our coffers (weather permitting) our first show is not until May.

We are an unregistered charity caring for horses that have been abandoned, ill treated, too old to work etc. Our aim is to provide them with food, shelter and medication and loving care for the rest of their natural lives.

We are not a riding school but rely on public donations, also adoptions (£5 per year), loans (£15 per quarter) and other self-motivated fund-raising activities.

It is also proposed to have an open weekend (bring your wellies) March 8 and 9. We have outstanding bills for veterinary work (over £1,000), also foodstuffs and the farrier's bill.

Our address, telephone number and website address are: Dianne French, 21 Wrose Grove, Bradford BD2 1PQ (01274 614087; www.geocities.com/rivendell_hq).

I do hope that your readers can help.

Trevor Williams-Berry (hon chairman), Bredon Avenue, Wrose.

SIR - George W Bush repeatedly states that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction and is violating UN security council resolution 1441 by not revealing and destroying them before the UN inspectors' eyes.

He is emphatic that he is doing the UN security council's will, even if he does not have a majority vote to endorse it.

But there is another country in breach of not one but FIVE such resolutions, even to this very day. These are Resolutions 497, 605, 607, 694 and 799 - dealing with Israel's breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention concerning the treatment of Arab civilians in Palestine.

There is a permanent war there carried out by Israelis armed with weapons of mass destruction supplied by the US, which kill ten Arabs for every Jew, steal their land and place permanent settlements on it, thumb their noses at UN reprimands - and have the gall to call it law and order. If any country needs a UN armed police force and government to keep the peace, it is Israel. Except for its being Washington's appointed representative to hold the balance of power in the Middle East and act in its interests solely.

Robert Hornsby, Bredon Avenue, Shipley.

SIR - While not agreeing with Tony Blair in any way (I would rather have the UN's backing over the Iraq situation), I am backing all the way our servicemen and women who have been put in an intolerable position by Blair and George Bush.

We have got to let our service personnel know we are thinking about them and wish a speedy end to this situation.

Michael Breen, Bolton Hall Road, Wrose, Bradford.

SIR - The 'mortal sin' central police station is but one of many muddled buildings inflicted by self-indulgent architects on to our once-homogenous city.

The founding fathers had a vision - Bradford as the new Florence. They built in an Italianate style, using honey-coloured Yorkshire stone. Despite the depredations of the Sixties, it's still the dominant style and sets Bradford apart from its neighbours.

On a recent holiday in Rumania I stopped in the city of Brasov. Its heart is the old town. Untouched by the Soviets, all new developments have to follow the traditional architecture and use local materials.

Imagine Bradford insisting on an Italianate style and use of Yorkshire stone? The architects would cry "pastiche", but it's not fawning to the past, it's giving local people something they like and want.

Bradford should play to its strengths and unique features. Sadly, the desperation for any development, no matter how ill conceived, is grasped and embraced.

We jealously grumble about Leeds and yet allow developments which only reinforce our third-rate status. Does Cineworld make your heart soar? It says something when even the blackened ruins of Eastbrook Hall makes a greater impression.

David Pendleton, Providence Terrace, Thornton.

SIR - I read with delight that something is to be done with Eastbrook Hall.

Couldn't it be restored to its old glories? I am sure there are a lot of Methodists in Bradford who would love to see it rise from the ashes.

It used to seat 2,000 people. I know it will take some time to renovate, but it is possible. Also make use of spare rooms for games etc for the teenagers and meetings.

I would love to hear the Hall ringing again with the hymns that everyone loved who went there.

F Pickles, Wadehouse Road, Shelf.

SIR - On February 26 your front-page story was of a 19-year-old girl with epilepsy whose father found her dead in the bath.

My sister Patricia Crawley died of epilepsy on December 21, 1998, at the age of 36.

I would like to point out to your readers that people in general do not realise how serious this condition is.

I really understand what this family is going through and feel more information about epilepsy should be available to the public to raise awareness.

Mrs H Dawson, Woodhall Road, Thornbury

SIR - Many thanks for publishing our letter (T&A, February 13) appealing for readers to contact us if they had any photographs of old West Bowling for possible inclusion in a new book we are currently putting together.

We had an absolutely fantastic response but we still need to find William (Bill) Baines, a very fine essayist and former history teacher at Woodroyd Middle School here in West Bowling during the 1970s and 1980s.

My sincere thanks to everyone who responded to our appeal and we now hope to have the book out by May at the very latest.

Alan O'Day Scott, (co-ordinator), 20 Weller Close, Bowling Old Lane, West Bowling, Bradford, BD5 7BQ.