SIR – Councillor David Green should be aware that to rebuild confidence or anything it has to have been built in the first place.

You said in an earlier edition that his predecessor, Ian Greenwood, had not been available for comment, but since the Labour hierarchy are to conduct an inquiry into the whole sordid affair, neither he nor anybody else should be able to remain or keep stumm and everything must be revealed. The whole affair stinks.

Philip Bird, Nab Wood Terrace, Shipley