SIR - I read with interest the news that Bradford may no longer be able to host speedway because a suitable development area is not available. Surely the Council is not going to let yet another Bradford sporting organisation disappear. There must be some vacant land available within the Council boundaries.

One such area where a suitable venue could be built and already has excellent motorway access and car parking space is the site of the failed Transperience. Based just off the motorway, this site could be developed to include a new speedway stadium which, if the correct funding was available, could also house greyhounds and stock-cars.

The stadium could also be linked to the nearby railway by the building of a small station, something which would also improve spectator access to the new Odsal Stadium development.

Perhaps another advantage in such a facility could be the use of the car parks during the day for some kind of park-and-ride system to get people to work within the city centre.

Michael Rawlings, Charterhouse Road, Idle.

SIR - I am sick of hearing of Odsal's millions going down the drain. All we want is a bit of common sense: the rugby where it belongs, the speedway where it belongs and the stock cars left where they were and just the cost of a roof and a few extra seats. That is all that is needed.

I have followed speedway for 58 years. I think the way speedway has been treated is disgusting.

Odsal's track is the best in England, a track to be proud of.

Speedway seems to be forgotten by all the people who are putting money in. We don't want any more shops. We have enough.

R Tate, Club Row, Wilsden

SIR - I think it surprised many Bulls supporters when they announced recently that it would be the last fixture at Odsal.

I thought at the time it seemed a bit of a play to get the rebuilding job done sooner rather than later.

We now have deadlock and possibly the end of a dream - Bradford's usual hiccups with its inept vision of grandiose schemes taking a dive again.

The gut feeling I get about Odsal is that if soccer was at the heart of the matter, with all the money it generates, a more concerted effort by the "empire-builders" would surely have made the Wembley of the North more than just a pipedream.

Kenneth E Higgins, Carr Bottom Grove, Little Horton, Bradford.

SIR - Thank you very much for the interesting article about the project "Overseas Trade Support for SMEs" (T&A, September 25). I am sure this will generate a lot of interest within the local business community, especially because these "export training seminars" are free of charge.

I am sure that local sales and export managers will try to contact me. Lamentably I am not sure they will know where to find me in order to obtain the necessary information for these export seminars.

The Export Training programme, application forms and venue details can be found in the following web page:

www.brad.ac.uk/acad/mancen/otss/training.htm

General information about the whole OTSS project can be found at www.brad.ac.uk/otss

Any interested party can contact me directly via email: Gonzalo Shoobridge: G.Shoobridge@bradford.ac.uk or via post: University of Bradford Management Centre, Emm Lane, Bradford BD9 4JL (tel 01274 235678/fax 01274 546866

The site above also offers links to all UK export service providers and more links to import service providers around the world. All this links are offered by continents and per country. This is an extremely interesting tool for exporters in the region.

Gonzalo E. Shoobridge, Project Manager, University of Bradford Management Centre, Emm Lane, Bradford BD9.

SIR - I have no doubt that my letter of September 21 regarding the fuel price protest caused gales of laughter in the circles in which C D Priestley obviously moves.

His letter of September 29 was singularly unoriginal as it contained all the platitudes uttered by Messrs Blair, Prescott, Lord McDonald etc. during their subsequent bleatings on television. Fashionable slander and derision are not the answers. Action is.

Mr Priestley might start by using his own intelligence by not deriding so vehemently the party I don't vote for.

After all, what was all that talk about Labour MPs' dodgy mortgages, two large cars and visits to massage parlours?

E Dunn, Trenam Park Drive, Thackley, Bradford.

SIR - With regard to the axing of 40 temporary cleansing workers. Maybe if the councillors were to take a cut in expenses or try taking the bus then money saved could make those lost jobs permanent jobs.

Come on Bradford, this is the year 2000, do you want a rat infested city? The people of this city don't want it.

Find the money for these jobs.

Harry Flynn, Powell Avenue, Little Horton.

SIR - Recently I came home from shopping in Bradford to find that the grassed area on Abb Scott had had been 'cut', with grass, mud etc left on paths and roads.

I complained to the Royds Association, and was informed it was the responsibility of Bradford Housing Department.

Another phone call, only to be told it wasn't their responsibility and they would get me to another department. Soothing music, then the same gentleman came back on the phone and said the line was engaged, but he would pass the details on.

All we can hope for is wind and rain to do the work for whoever is responsible.

M Kent, Abb Scott Lane, Low Moor, Bradford.

SIR - Re-site the market in Canal Road? No! It is way out of the town centre.

Why not start by rebuilding the old market that they pulled down and build right across John Street and join it on to John Street Market, diverting traffic away from John Street.

Then people could just cross the road from Kirkgate Market into the new market and be under cover all the time from the bad weather right up to the top of the market and Morrisons, just like it is in Leeds.

Mrs Joyce Tatarczuk, Legrams Lane, Bradford 7.