SIR - Bradford is undergoing exciting regeneration and there is a palpable sense of renewal in the air.

Many visitors and residents alike make use of busy Forster Square railway station which provides a significant gateway into the city for rail travellers.

Never the cleanest of stations, I have been appalled to note in the last few weeks that the state of the concourse has managed to plummet to evermore deplorable levels.

The complete lack of bins (a security measure, I am told), coupled with the irresponsibility of some littering users, is resulting in a station which better resembles a refuse tip.

Railway staff inform me the cleaning contract has been reduced from an already inadequate once a day to an unbelievable once a week!

The headlong pursuit of profit seems to have blinded Northern Rail to any sense of social responsibility. The fare-paying public deserve a clean and decent station environment but sadly, if the regular state of this station at 7.30am is anything to go by, not only is this sentiment not one shared by Northern Rail it is quite openly scorned.

Richard Lee-Van den Daele, Gaisby Lane, Shipley