SIR – How can the chairman of the Shipley Area Committee defend the hypocrisy of his Conservative colleagues, preaching to others about the virtues of children cycling to school, when they do not lead by example? Particularly when, as I pointed out, there is a safe route to the private school they attend on the doorstep. It appears he may have missed the point.

He also appears to have missed the petition, signed by 1,000 people in Baildon, calling for improvements at Baildon Bridge. It has been sitting in his in-tray for the last five months!

Ian Lyons, Liberal Democrat Parish Councillor (Baildon East), Cliffe Avenue, Baildon