SIR - Your report of vandalism to an advertisement hoarding by suspected devout Muslims suggested deja vu to me.

When Salman Rushdie's tedious tome Satanic Verses was published we had the same form of intolerance, coupled with book-burning and death threats to some of us who felt he should have been allowed to write what he wished.

If people don't care for an advertisement (or a book, for that matter) the solution is both simple and civilised: don't buy the product. And at the risk of upsetting others, remember that one man's meat is another man's poison.

John Tempest, PO Box 163, Bradford 3.

SIR - I was informed by the bus driver this morning that the 671 service is being completely withdrawn from service and that the 670 service will be changing its route.

The 670 normally travels along Bolton Road up to Bolton Junction turns left on to Idle Road through Morrisons Enterprise 5, down Bradford Road, New Line to Greengates. It then continues through Calverley and Rodley to Leeds.

The bus driver informed me that the new route would be from the city centre travelling along Otley Road, Harrogate Road to the Ring O' Bells public house, then on Victoria Road and down The Bank, cutting through Thorpe Edge estate to rejoin Harrogate Road at the end of Orchard Grove by Sainsbury's supermarket.

This means that all the people who normally catch the bus on Bolton Road, Idle Road, Morrisons Enterprise 5, Bradford Road and New Line will be completely cut off.

Whoever at First Bradford decided to change the routes and completely withdraw another service on a major route like this has obviously no consideration for the actual paying public.

John Rushworth, Grove House Crescent, Bradford 2.

Khadim Hussain, Operations Director for First Bradford, said: "The 671 service is currently operating every hour which is a reflection of poor usage between Bradford and Greengates. In order to make the service more accessible and attractive the 671 service has now been amalgamated with the 670 service, providing an enhanced frequency of every 30 minutes, instead of 60 minutes, via Harrogate Road and Thorpe Edge Estate. The withdrawal of the 671 service has been complemented with a more frequent bus service in the Idle/Eccleshill area with 640/641 service. The reorganisation of First Bradford bus network is to take effect from July 23. The timetable and other publicity material will be produced nearer the date and will be available to our customers."

SIR - Regarding First Bus changing the 608 and 609 service called the Greengates Circular - which has been a good service serving Thorpe Edge and Ravenscliffe estates all this time - to bring a worse service and stop the circular service. All the people I have come in contact with are up in arms about it, and rightly so.

Whatever service they bring in will not be as good as the Greengates Circular and not as often.

So please think again, First Bus, and leave it as it is before you have a riot on your hands.

J Mosley, Parkland Drive, Thorpe Edge.

SIR - The proposed withdrawal of all daytime 652 buses between Bradford and Ilkley cannot possibly be attributed to a loss-making service as it is extremely well patronised.

Indeed, it has always been a matter of some inconvenience that the frequency was reduced some years ago from 30 minutes to hourly. This coincided with the decision by the then British Rail to supply half-hourly trains from Bradford to Ilkley, bringing it in line with services to and from Leeds, and this was given as the basis for this slap in the face for the Ilkley and district bus passengers.

Without this bus, Ilkley, Ben Rhydding, Burley and Menston will have no bus link whatsoever with Bradford, and will be reliant on the train - some trek to the stations, especially in Burley-in-Wharfedale, for the elderly, infirm, supermarket shoppers and mums with pushchairs and toddlers, etc, not to mention commuters who already find that the rail link to Bradford at peak times is severely stretched!

In addition, the extra service into Menston village centre (09.45 and 12.04 each way respectively) will also disappear.

I feel we must do something as our way of life is considerably threatened by these high-handed proposals.

Elizabeth M Holbrook, Bradford Road, Menston.

SIR - This so-called listening Government recently spent £500,000 asking the public what they needed from the NHS. After three years in office they admit that they have no idea that what we, the public, require.

I say, get rid of expansive quangoes such as NICE, an agency set up by Government to base its health-care services on a cost/care ratio doctrine.

This government body is allegedly proposing withdrawing the drug Interferon for the thousands of multiple sclerosis sufferers in this country. Not only is it a ludicrous comment on the efficiency of the NHS but shows how blinkered politicians are in running this country.

To house and nurse a wheelchair-bound person in a hospital or nursing home costs £50,000 per year. The drug needed to alleviate the suffering of a suitable sufferer is £10,000.

What annoys me is MPs don't even bother to question the figures, don't seem bothered that this country is virtually at the bottom of the health league tables compared to other countries in Europe.

How is that we can find the money to support the foreign armies of mostly corrupt countries yet can't find money to support the sick here in Britain?

Ruth Blackman, Prince Street, Haworth

SIR - Re the Bierley Woods BMX track (June 24). Aren't children such a nuisance and aren't BMX bikes so noisy? And, naturally, being children, they aren't residents.

Riding bikes is most kids' favourite leisure activity and they need somewhere safe to do it - even if they do come from the local council estate.

Bradford's woods are always a magnet for bikes of all kinds, including noisy ones. Short of having a countryside warden permanently in residence, the best way of controlling them is to provide a fixed facility where they will gather together, rather than ride everywhere.

The site of the old hospital is not an area of outstanding beauty but is a an overgrown, shrubby area typical of demolished buildings. The woods proper will not be affected, wild animals have more sense than to sit in front of a kid on a BMX and one relatively small track will not "desecrate" the woods as a whole.

By the way, if they live on the Bierley estate, shouldn't they have a right of access to Bierley Woods and a voice in who uses them?

Mike Healey, Bradford Cycling Action Group, Dyehouse Road, Bradford 12.

SIR - Your new website is a credit to the T & A. It is very easy to use and must give pleasure to a lot of Yorkshire "exiles" who are now able to keep up with what is happening in the Bradford area. Well done.

Maureen Craven, West Drummond Cottage, Whitebridge, Inverness.