SIR - It beggars belief that serving police officers are now claiming for trauma and injuries following the Bradford riot. I thought that sort of risk went with the "territory", so to speak.

I am also disgusted that a bus driver dumped my 87-year-old grandmother in Sunbridge Road in the middle of the riot and that not one police officer helped my grandmother, who is physically infirm and has poor eyesight, to find a place of safety at that time.

She had to sit in the middle of the riot for over three hours before other Samaritans helped her home.

We spoke yesterday. She still cannot sleep and has been left traumatised. Those claiming compensation for trauma apparently gave not a second thought to my grandmother, the innocent bystander.

Anton Clark, Porters Avenue, Dagenham, Essex.

SIR - In the course of research for a forthcoming book on Bradford's former breweries, I came across the following letter from the T&A of July 10, 1945, under the headline "The Soldiers' Beer".

"Sir - Six of us were on leave in Bradford together recently and were informed that Hammond's Brewery Co (Fountain Brewery, Manchester Road) were sending a lot of their beer overseas - 100,000 bottles per month to be correct. We knew about this a long time ago through your paper, and we have waited quite a while to see if any would come our way.

"We have served in almost every theatre of war since 1939, and have not yet seen a single bottle of Hammond's beer. What we should like to know is, where is the beer going? Is it to the 'Basewallahs'? If not, are Hammonds still sending their beer out here?

Yours etc; SIX BRADFORDIANS, (B L A - British Liberation Army)"

The T&A replied: "We are assured by Hammonds that they are still sending their beer abroad, but they have no control over its dissemination once it leaves these shores."

I would be interest to hear from any of the Bradford six.

M E Toft (Bradford Camra & Brewery History Society), 16 Westfield Terrace, Undercliffe, Bradford BD2 4RJ (e-mail me.toft@btinternet.com).

SIR - I am surprised that Mr K Higgins (Letters, July 26) thinks that bus-passengers' journeys are less pressing than car-users' journeys. Certainly bus passengers have less-pressing appointments with the Grim Reaper, as bus journeys are much safer than car journeys.

However, most bus passengers are making similar journeys to car users: going to work, the shops etc. Their journeys are just as pressing. However, busy bus passengers can make good use of their bus journey to make mobile phone calls safely or catch up with business reading, etc, activities which make car journeys ever more hazardous.

The Leeds guided-bus way is extremely popular. Patronage has grown by more than 30 per cent. Such growth will cancel out the loss of road space on Manchester Road and increase parking availability in Bradford, so car users will benefit hugely from this far-sighted and exciting scheme.

Concerns by the Fire Brigades Union are unfounded as road safety and emergency service access has been built into the scheme. Transfer from car to bus usage will reduce the number of emergencies that require attention. The extra pedestrian crossings will also dramatically reduce demands on the accident and emergency services.

Ray Wilkes, Tower Road, Shipley.

SIR - I cannot believe that the self-righteous Councillor Greenwood is trying to make political points out of Councillor Eaton's remarks about Lord Ouseley's report.

One of the biggest problems we have in our society is that anybody who questions the liberal "politically correct" view is hounded out of office for having racist opinions.

What we desperately need in our city and country is politicians from all sides willing to take up an honest debate. Then and only then can we become a better society.

Dave Baker, Luther Way, King's Park, Bradford 2.

SIR - I wonder if other readers were as amazed as I was at your report (July 25) of Bradford University's offer to pay South Asians to complete one of its courses.

Following the difficulties of the last few weeks, and the publication of Lord Ouseley's report, can anyone seriously believe that the way forward for our district is to provide a scheme open to only one ethnic group?

Lord Ouseley rightly identified educational segregation as one of the main problems facing the city. How on earth can this help?

To offer cash payments only adds insult - both to those with similar financial needs, but who are excluded from taking the course by race, and to the Bradfordians of South Asian origin who have completed higher education without the need for cash inducements.

If a demand for the Inner City Studies course exists, let people apply and be selected on an equal footing.

I am all in favour of schemes that allow talented people from deprived areas to access higher education. What I oppose, absolutely, is Bradford University's racist method in delivering them.

Councillor David Herdson, Norwood Avenue, Shipley.

SIR - Last week we had some friends here from South Africa and decided to give them a quick tour of the Dales by car. On our way back we had to call at the public toilets in Settle and they were a disgrace. We were quite embarrassed by them and were not used by us. There was also a ten pence charge for them.

How does Settle expect to get tourists with facilities like this? The local authority should be working flat out to remedy a thing like this when foot and mouth is keeping visitors away.

A Heaton, Halifax Road, Brierfield, Lancashire.

SIR - Robert Irvine (Letters, July 28) has such confidence in the future of Bradford that he plans expansion and investment in his legal business.

Since the service he provides has been chiefly criminal defence, this suggests he has confidence in the growth of criminal behaviour.

I share his confidence, but it does not make me feel good about the future of our city.

L A Hobsbaum, Willow Crescent, Bradford.