SIR - Enough is enough! My car has just been vandalised for the third time. Fireworks have been exploding all around me all year and getting louder and more frequent as November 5 approaches.

Cars are always being set alight on our streets, the last time in the car park of the flats where I live. And I'd barely got into my new home before I was burgled.

And I know people this happens to on a regular basis.

It's time the ordinary decent people of Bradford stood up, stood together, and vowed to stop it, NOW!

I have no easy solutions, but if people care to email me their ideas on eie@houstonm.demon.co.uk, I promise to collate them and put together a strategy for making Bradford a place fit to live in once more.

If you don't have internet access, write (with SAE, please) to Enough Is Enough, 15 Church Green, Bradford, BD8 7QN.

You know it makes sense.

Karl Dallas, Church Green, Bradford 8.

SIR - Once again we have Bonfire Night nearly upon us. The noise from fireworks is already terrible. They are like bombs or grenades going off.

It is time the law was changed and they are banned. All people against fireworks should write to their MP.

J R Smith, Flawith Drive, Fagley.

SIR - One of the reasons why I have been so proud to be a Bradfordian for the last 15 years has been the sheer wonder, delight and feeling of community engendered by the Bradford Festival, organised and orchestrated as it has been by a team of passionate, committed artists.

To see Bradford city centre come alive, as it has done through their efforts, and to witness the development of the Mela over the years since its inception, has been miraculous.

The way in which the members of Bradford Festival Ltd have been treated financially is shameful. Bradford Festival was a wonderful event that brought life to a sometimes gloomy city.

We have a vibrant community of artists and musicians of all ethnic mixes in Bradford, and neither I nor anyone I have spoken to on the subject believes that an outside company can possibly draw all the strings of our creative community together in the way that Allan Brack, Mark Fielding and their team have been doing so well for so many years.

As for the Capital of Culture bid, without our own Bradford Festival team it is a nonsense and a travesty. When did Margaret Eaton last dance to a band in Centenary Square?

Mrs Helen Kemp, Victoria Road, Saltaire.

SIR - I am delighted to see that the Government has put ID cards "on the back burner" indefinitely. One of the reasons is that the Treasury identified the cost of the scheme as being £1 billion.

The Government is particularly nervous about extra costs at this time because, in two years, its spending will be greater than its income. What then? Yes, our taxes rise.

That there is a black hole in our nation's finances will not be mentioned by Labour, who have taken their opportunity to "bury" bad news.

Therefore, Mr Waterhouse (T&A, October 18) will have to persuade Chancellor Gordon Brown that his fatuous argument in support of ID cards - "the needs of the many..." is valid at a time of rising public spending.

I would be happier if this Government actually gave £1 billion to replace our lost police numbers so that they could do the job they are employed to do.

As for Mr Waterhouse worrying about the State/Council stealing his hard-earned money: in Bradford, we have just got rid of a Labour Council. Considering the above spending problem, perhaps he can see a connection? I see it every day at City Hall.

Councillor Robert Reynolds (Con., Wyke Ward), Westminster Crescent, Clayton.

SIR - Bradford Council should challenge the Government's bid to force it to hold a referendum on an elected mayor. The people have spoken in consultation this year.

The Government and Jim O'Neill should shut up and accept the decision of the people of Bradford. And Labour councillors should stop crying like little children when things do not go there way.

E Walgrove, Hirst Wood Road, Shipley.

SIR - Yes, I can offer a fair bit of agreement with your editorial on October 16 about the proposed riots inquiry. I suspect we're doomed to have yet another piece of navel gazing and precious little coherent action.

The navel gazing bit is actually straightforward. At the special scrutiny committee meeting Councillor Thomson seems to have got quickly to the root of the problem. Then he leapt triumphantly to the wrong conclusion. Which is why, of course, the action bit is going to be tricky.

If anybody would listen to a ten-minute slot, I could save a fair bit of time and money on the 'background causes' part of the inquiry. There is a straightforward, traceable series of causal links between one specific education issue in the Bradford North constituency area and the riots of early July.

A 200-word limit means, regrettably, I can't expand here, but as a fellow member of the Education Scrutiny Committee I'll drop a line to Councillor Greaves, in this special scrutiny committee hot seat.

M Pollard, Moorfield Drive, Baildon.

SIR - If those who feel the need to have an inquiry into the recent riots would like to contact me, I can give them 101 reasons.

By doing so I hope to save the thousands of pounds it would cost my fellow citizens.

It really is time we buried the issue once and for all and our so-called elected representatives got on with the job of keeping essential services required by everyone.

Isn't one of the reasons behind the riots equality - for all, I might add.

Barry Foster, Gilstead Lane, Gilstead.

SIR - Frank Dickinson's reference to the "Goit" in the T&A reminded me of the time when, in the early hours of a winter's morning in the 1950s, I almost died of fright.

I was walking along Goitside when I was suddenly confronted by a ghostly figure of "ectoplasm" floating eerily in the gas light (yes) and growing larger by the second.

Before I ran away in terror, my common sense kicked in and I realised that some-one in the mills, which bordered the Goit had released a bowlful of hot water in to the water beneath my feet as Bradford Beck at this point is conduited to cross the city.

The steam I had mistaken for "ectoplasm" had made many young bobbies before me jump and continued to do so for many years.

I've no doubt this happened to Frank at some stage.

Paul Patmore Jackson, Toller Lane, Bradford.