SIR - As the Trades Union nominated director of Bradford Vision, I fully support the Capital of Culture bid. However, we will only succeed if we honestly address weaknesses and seek to remedy them urgently.

I was outraged by the remarks of Robin Morley, whose company, UZ, organised the poorest festival for many years. By attempting to make out criticism of his company's poor performance as an anti-Bradford statement, Mr Morley throws deliberate dirt into the eyes of people asking questions about the expenditure of public money.

These questions are simple, legitimate, and ought to be answered. What was the full cost of this year's festival, including officer time and Council support? Why was the festival shorter and run at a time that substantially reduced schools participation?

Why was Centenary Square a shambles? Why was the Mela a relative flop? Why were community groups and Asian businesses alienated? Why was there no atmosphere and sense of involvement in the festival by many people who have in previous years seen it as a major highlight of their year?

In suggesting that Alan Brack (Bradford born and bred) and Dusty Rhodes (30 years adopted son) are anti-Bradford, Mr Morley prompts their comparison with a fly-by-night visitor interested only in the profits he can make. One would hope that he learns the humility to admit UZ got things wrong in order that their palpable lack of roots in Bradford can be addressed.

Geoff Robinson, Chapel Street, Bradford.

SIR - I have lived in New Zealand for 26 years and read the T&A on the internet. It was nice to see concern over Roberts Park at Saltaire. My family and I spent a lot of happy hours there when I was a child, and we used to go fishing with a jam jar on the canal.

I was back four years ago and it has altered a lot, with a pub-come-restaurant where there used to be a boat shed. We also played in the stocks and made up games. I hope the park gets the support and money it needs.

S Moran, Harrow Street, Dunedin, NZ

SIR - As a member of the Prayer Book Society, I have sadly encountered evidence, some of it confidential, that some parish congregations have had modern liturgies thrust upon them against their will by powerful clergy and their supporters on parochial church councils.

Church people who have suffered from the manipulative banishment of the Book of Common Prayer from its use in main Sunday services should send details to "PBS, St James Garlickhythe, London, EC4V 2AF."

The BCP sits comfortably on living-room book shelves in a way that the "Common Worship" volumes do not; and it alone is presentable to brides at weddings, babies at baptisms, and so forth.

Interestingly, while the General Synod betrays the New Testament "indissolubility of marriage" doctrine by overturning the traditional opposition to "second marriage", the BCP wedding-service upholds it unambiguously.

Frank R McManus, Longfield Road, Todmorden.

SIR - In support of regional assemblies, local MP Chris Leslie says that Yorkshire people know how to look after their money. So why isn't he looking after it? Weren't he and other local MPs sent to Westminster to do just that?

We do not need another layer of shop talkers sponging off taxpayers, creating more red tape and debating how to screw even more out of us. Perhaps if Westminster MPs worked more than six months a year and had fewer overseas jaunts at our expense, they would find time to do what they were elected to do instead of demanding regional assembles to do it for them.

They should also speak the truth. A "Yorkshire parliament" is not even on the agenda. It is a (European) Assembly of Yorkshire and the Humber to be run from Brussels. Aren't our MEPs supposed to be representing "Yorkshire and the Humber"?

Regional assemblies will destroy forever England as a nation. We're already the only "member" of the UK and the EU with no parliament of our own. Let's have a voice for England.

Eric Firth, Wellington Street, Wilsden.

SIR - The Cathedral Chapter talk about love, trust and understanding. Perhaps it would have been better if they had shown some of this to sacked choirmaster Alan Horsey.

Are they so busy being politically correct that they forget to practise what they preach?

M Leach, Hillside, Overdale Park, Skipton.