SIR – Bradford Council is literally throwing money down the drain maintaining three-year-old gully cleaners which spend as much time off the road as on it (T&A, May 7). If, as reported, the Council has millions of pounds in reserve, why does it not buy new wagons?

Residents should not have to put up with blocked gullies for months on end just because our city fathers are penny wise and pound foolish. More to the point they are a health hazard.

D Rhodes, Croscombe Walk, Bradford