SIR – So, our ‘loony tunes’ Council strikes again – proposing an end to what little free car parking exists in the city centre.

Not content with eradicating the prime shopping area more effectively than the Luftwaffe on a clear night, then planning to waste another opportunity by grassing it over in the hope we don’t notice that monumental error, they now decide to invoke the next disincentive for spending any money with Bradford businesses.

There’s a rumour that the final phase of this ‘master plan’ will involve writing personally to everyone in the Bradford Metropolitan area who’s not on benefits, enclosing a free set of detailed maps showing the easiest routes to Halifax, Huddersfield, Wakefield, Leeds and Harrogate shopping centres, just in case any of those affluent folk haven’t yet managed to find these all attractive money-spending places!

Graham Hoyle, Kirkbourne Grove, Baildon, Shipley